What sort of world do we have to live in where a four-year-old has to undergo an entrance examination to get into kindergarten? And why is it so acceptable for school teachers to actually have a yardstick. You cannot have any measure of a child&rs
The war of wits over Telangana has shifted from Hyderabad to Delhi in the last two days. Prominent leaders from Andhra Pradesh including TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu and TRS president K Chandrasekhara Rao have been camping in Delhi since yesterda
Yes, khaps should be banned, if you ask me. But don’t ask me, for I will say religion, too, should be banned – and for more or less the same reasons that supreme court offered while calling them kangaroo courts in 2011: "Atrocitie
For R Subrahmanyam, a joint secretary with the ministry of rural development, overseeing the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi national rural employment guarantee scheme (MNREGS), is unimaginable without the help of information technology. MNRE
Lush and serene surroundings at the Adhyatmik Nagar railway halt, located nearly 20 km away from New Delhi by the side of National Highway 24 connecting Lucknow, is a deceptive veneer that conceals a hideous social fault line. That was exposed on
Government of India’s flagship programme for universalisation of education has constantly been in news in Jammu and Kashmir for quite some time. The Sarv Shikhsha Abhiyan (SSA) had been launched with much fanfare with an objective to benefit
The only entrance to Jia Sarai – a tiny suburban sprawl in south Delhi, surrounded by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) campus from three sides – is littered with posters. Posters of all sizes scream from the walls names of coac
The AAP government in Delhi refuses to ban khap panchayats. It condones search and assault of African women in Khirki extension in south Delhi. The chief minister and his cabinet colleagues even sit on a dharna demanding suspension of police offic
India might be the most sought after destination for IT and software services, but when it comes to cyber security or its professionals, it finds itself seriously short-changed. The new cyber security policy 2013, under discussion since 2011, mand
With general elections merely weeks away, the UPA government has revised the cap on cooking gas cylinders to 12 and put on hold the direct benefit transfer (to bank account of beneficiaries) for LPG cylinders, fearing a backlash from a section of
Every time some calls me or meets me and says they need to tell me something and they are percolating with excitement, I want to go into my little room, shut the door and hide because I know they are going to tell me what I don’t want to hea
The department of electronics and IT (DeitY) designed a model request for proposal (RFP) document in 2010 to serve as a guiding light for all departments in their tendering process. However, it has been three years and counting and major governmen
Already reeling under the extreme depreciation of rupee vis-à-vis dollar and slower GDP growth, the IT industry is facing another set of challenge: unfavourable payment terms and lower margins in e-governance projects, resulting in serious
Despite the flak he has copped of late, especially following this week’s interview on Times Now, Rahul Gandhi seems set to follow his youth-first mantra in the general elections. The Congress vice-president’s repeated emphasis
Over a lakh people had gathered at the Ramlila ground on December 28 last year to witness Arvind Kejriwal take oath as the chief minister of Delhi. The new government raised hopes among people by promising a change in the system. A month later, th
Addressing a two day conference on environment and safety – prevention & management of chemical accidents” in collaboration with ministry of environment & forests in Delhi on Wednesday, Choubey said in the present era of rapid
Asha Mirje, one can be reasonably certain, is not too keen on going out at 11 pm for a movie, with or without a friend, which is fine. Asha Mirje, one can also be certain, is not a misogynist, which does not add much to her CV but is okay –
The 27 January interview of Rahul Gandhi with Times Now’s Arnab Goswami has been dubbed a disappointment. Keeping the fact that it was pitched as a NaMo-Raga face-off, no one really got any masala. Nothing that Gandhi said incited p
Dear Rahul, I saw your interview last night, as I am sure the whole nation, or, may be, the 10 or so percent of it that understands English did. Not that I understand English much – I mean I still go around confusing bet
If the general elections are here, can opinion polls and surveys be far behind? As winter threatens to pull back record early this season, it is spring time for poll-related polls and surveys. And as the election weather gathers heat, getting a fa
