I’m sure even the Gods will love to e-learn!
Technology is something that has fascinated even the Gods… even those teeming thousands from the Indian mythological tales. Our own Ramayana and even the Mahabharata are filled with so many incidents that go on to prove that the Gods were madly in love with technology. When I told this to my nephew, he cautiously asked...
The rings of confidence
The Olympic motto is the hendiatris Citius, Altius, Fortius, which in plain English means “Faster, Higher, Stronger”. Most of us will also know that the five-ringed symbol “represents the union of the five continents and the meeting of athletes from throughout the world at the Olympic Games.” What most of us need to know is...
The certified conspiracy
“Opportunity is not like a shooting star, there every once in a while, but like the moon, there every night – you just have to look for it.” It appears that when Kayla Clafton wrote these lines she knew I’d be writing this small article on the state of education in India in the year...
Does a Degree make you a Success?
Not everyone with a degree is successful, not every dropout is a failure. We all know this very well, we subscribe to this opinion, and yet we go and run after degrees at the slightest pretext. Is it a mere degree that will fetch us the crown called success? Is such a success real… or...
The truth is in our thoughts
There is a lot of real and unreal that has become a part of what we call education in today’s context. There are facts that exist on paper but are otherwise non-existent, there are stories of unbelievable success that go unrecorded, truths that are whispered and then forgotten, false triumphs that remain embedded in files…...
Do we really want a revolution in education?
Revolution is a confused word. It defines itself as ‘a dramatic and wide-reaching change in the way something works or is organized or in people’s ideas about it’ and then turns around to stare at me as it redefines itself as ‘motion in orbit or a circular course or around an axis or center’. One...
