Interview with the AICTE Chairman Mr Anil D Sahasrabudhe
When Frank Gehry talked about architecture speaking of its time and place, but yearning for timelessness, he couldn’t possibly have visited the AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) building on Nelson Mandela Marg in New Delhi. Timelessness has been the essence of whatever decisions have emerged from the offices here where natural light and...
Is the NEP about old mind-sets in new bodies?
Some thinkers believe that reports and recommendations invariably remain what they are if unaccompanied by the micro-details of strategic implementation maneuvers. A bit higher in the hierarchy of proposed actions and actionable steps is the wave theory of political will of the powers, the calculus of economic certainties and uncertainties, the gravitational laws pervading in...
A fantasy called a technical course
Euphemistically or otherwise, the way we humans describe technology is ‘down-to-earth’, ‘objective’, ‘practical’, and ‘useful’. The paradox is that good and sound technology always emerges out of the fantasy thinking of a dreamer… but it is rightly said that even these dreams need to be laced with facts and figures. So what is technology really?...
AICTE and the art of plagiarism
AICTE or All India Council for Technical Education wants everyone to hold it and its policies in great esteem. For one of my blog posts I wanted some information that I thought could be had from the AICTE website… good that I decided to surf around that site because I stumbled on to texts that...
