Good education is like a great story
Education needs to be like a powerful weapon enabling a student to change the world. It must be a valid passport to a discerning student’s future, be an affordable investment imparting true learning, have all the right ingredients that inspire passion, and needs to be a vehicle to transport values and not simply facts. If...
Passion, Pain, and Possibility
The year was 1994. Specky, my wife, came in and said, ‘I’ve won the scholarship.’ That’s it. Nothing more. But I didn’t need any more information. I knew exactly what she meant. She had just been awarded the Commonwealth Scholarship to go and get her DPhil from the UK. So this is how I got...
Utsav sells his first idea
This happened in the mid-nineties when I was in York, UK. My wife was there working for her DPhil as a Commonwealth Scholar and I was there with her for a few months to help her settle down and, of course, see as much of that country as possible. We had Pushkin, our son, with...
