The education the government provides still reeks
of Macaulay. The course content, though enriching and informative, fails to help candidates land jobs. So students turn to coaching institutes. Bureaucrats who run the education system are totally out of touch with the present day needs of students. Coaching institutes, on the contrary, have a planned and scientific approach to things. They are, therefore, as much a necessity as a compulsion. They are likely to remain so until the government changes its approach.
of Macaulay. The course content, though enriching and informative, fails to help candidates land jobs. So students turn to coaching institutes. Bureaucrats who run the education system are totally out of touch with the present day needs of students. Coaching institutes, on the contrary, have a planned and scientific approach to things. They are, therefore, as much a necessity as a compulsion. They are likely to remain so until the government changes its approach.
seem to be fighting imaginary adversaries. We violate traffic rules, throw garbage wherever our heart desires and go all out to prove how tough we are by breaking basic norms of decency. How dare the municipal corporation tell us where to urinate and where not. We relieve ourselves on roadsides and on public walls at will. Our cities have turned into free-for-all urinals. In India, lovers are frowned upon if they hold hands or kiss in public, but it's perfectly to urinate or defecate out in the open. We spot a board that says "Photography prohibited" and we do everything we can to assert our freedom by posing before that very board and going click, click, click... Rules are made to be broken. Park your car under a no-parking sign, pluck flowers from gardens that are out of bounds and jaywalk with gay abandon meters away from a zebra crossing or a subway. We are Indians and we don't like to be dictated to.
become impostors themselves. Yet this is exactly what the West Bengal police are being accused of. Posing as journalists of two non-existent publications – one as a reporter of Asian News Agency of Singapore and the other as a camerman of Tazaa TV channel of Kolkata – they arrested Chatradhar Mahato, the most vocal face of Lalgarh’s Police Santras-Birodhi Janaganer Committee (People’s Committee against Police Atrocities).
Dussehra. But this year I don’t think I will be able to buy any. My husband is working in a private sector company. Due to slowdown he has got no increment this year, which means our budget for the upcoming festivals will remain more or less same as last year. With price of everything rising thick and fast, I don’t think with the same budget I have any chance to buy any gold jewellery.” This is what visibly upset Jyotsna Patra, a home maker from Bhubaneswar, shared with us while discussing about her plans for this year’s festival season. But then, she is not the only one.
K V Dayal was adorned by a heavy bronze bell. Jaitha Dayal, lady of the house and wife of KV Dayal came out to greet us; Dayal was away for a meeting of Nature Club, a conclave of people endeavouring towards organic approach to agriculture. We decided to take, in the meantime, a round of the forest that has supplanted the once-barren Muhamma region in Alappuzha district of Kerala, thanks to the efforts of this 62-year-old nature enthusiast.
was heavily fined when it failed to meet the regulatory norms set up by the European Commission (EC). In 2008, the antitrust regulators fined a whopping $1.3 billion for not being able to comply with the antitrust laws since 2004 and thus bringing the total amount of fines on Microsoft to a gigantic $2.5 billion. In 2009, EC imposed a fine of $1.45 billion (£1.06 billion) on American giant, Intel Corporation on the ground that illegal anticompetitive practices of Intel would harm the continuation of a healthy competitive market. The EC, in fact, has gone unique in this century with its antitrust activities. It fined Archer Daniels Midland, along with 13 other leading pharmaceutical companies, which the EC suspected were seeking to control the European vitamin market. The most horrifying one was when EC blocked the $43 billion merger deal between General Electric and Honeywell on the ground that American firms are targeting and buying European firms to retain their growth. Surprisingly, the deal was allowed by the US regulators.