India has slipped five ranks since last year to 105 on global education parameters leading to fears that the country would miss most of the millennium development goals for its children, according to a report by UN education watchdog UNESCO.
Hindustan Times carried this report today that UNESCO’s Director-General Koichiro Matsuura said despite remarkable strides towards [...]
Archive for November, 2007
India slips down
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Access to schools, AIDS, dropouts, Education, illiteracy on November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Smoke and bald fast
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged baldness, deadly, macho, smoking, tobacco, youngsters on November 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I do a minimum lap of one round – at times more than two – of Kukkarhalli Lake. That’s not spectacular for a man on the wrong side of forty. However, it was the same man who had struggled to carry his cricket kit for a short distance, having gone to play at the Eden [...]
Need of the hour: English
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged English education, hypocrisy, Indian situation, Korea, language on November 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It is not in India alone that the clamour for English is so pervasive. According to an article by Andy Jackson in Korean Times, Korea’s national obsession with English education may yet influence the outcome of the presidential race.
“English education is not just academic for Korean voters, especially parents with children in public education. [...]
Silly season? Always
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Chomsky, Deve Gowda, Journalism, Karnataka politics, media, murky affairs, pliable, reporters, watchdog on November 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Friend and veteran journalist, GV Krishnan, has raised an issue of import in his blog: ‘Silly season’. The term is defined as “ a period when media, starved of hard news stories, fills space with frivolous stories”. http://gvk2.wordpress.com/2007/11/23/bangalore-media-silly-season-is-here/
“As a newspaper reporter once I have been there; done that. Such story-on-demand are produced in response to [...]
Perseverance leads to perfection
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ballet, Chinese, dance, hard work, perfection, Perseverance, spirit on November 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Practice makes man perfect. Yes, perseverance of the kind that this Chinese couples have symbolized, is what makes their ballet a class act. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5lN96dgt_Y. Like all geniuses, they make their art look so simple. Care to try.
What is bad
Posted in Uncategorized on November 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
None of us ever imagine ourselves as a homosexual person. Neither the society nor the culture can bear it and religiously it’s a forbidden act. Thousands and thousands of articles have been written and plenty of research has been done, but still the society opposes it.
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UGC on Ragging
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged mob behaviour, ragging, sadism, uncivilised on November 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The Universities Grants Commission has decided to act tough on colleges which have not complied with the requirement of setting up anti-ragging committee sand squad, says an exclusive report in week-end Deccan Herald. No amount of vigilance is adequate to check the menace of ragging. Only recently, we read the report of the principal and [...]
Equal rights
Posted in Uncategorized on November 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Lady medicos staying in the government-run hostel in City have aired a demand that the 8 p.m. deadline for them to get back for the day be extended. If the boys can check in late in the night, why not us, is their argument. They staged a demo at their hostel necessitating the chief warden’s [...]
Politics, not a bad career
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged fresh air, honesty, mission, Mysore, Mysoreans, new beginning, politicians, politics, public spirit, students on November 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The stench emanating from the State capital has pervaded the whole country, but for us Kannadigas it is unbearable. We, the electorate, also have to take responsibility for the state of petrified politics which we have been witnessing day in and day out. We all need to take individual responsibility for the pits we are [...]
