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How Boosting R&D Intensity Could Speed Up India's Economic Growth
While addressing the Times Higher Education BRICS and Emerging Economies' Universities Summit in the first week of December, President Pranab Mukherjee expressed serious concerns over the quality of...
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'A Strangeness In My Mind': Pamuk's Ode To A Keeper Of Memories
"Kaale kaale phalse..." Whenever the faint voice of the phalsa seller reached my ears, I would dash down the stairs to call out to him. It was a delight to watch the man unburden the basket -- resting...
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A 5-Point Checklist For Running A Blog That Matters
Ever wondered why all that hard work on your blog seems to go unnoticed and not yield any traffic growth and/or potential leads? Among other things, it could be entirely possible that you've been...
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Photo Essay: The Small Blessings Of Christmas In Sangachok, Nepal
In the past few months, Nepal has lurched from one problem to another. First came the April earthquake, then the aftershocks and then the fuel crisis. Christmas, hence, was tinged with much sorrow for...
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3 Leadership Lessons From Modi's Surprise Visit To Lahore
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's sudden visit to Lahore is being hailed as an innovation in diplomacy, wherein he has gone out of his way to reset the thorny relationship between two nuclear nations....
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Podcast: How We Gave A Desi Twist To Christmas
"Has anyone noticed how Christmas is no longer a Christian festival in India? That fairy lights strung up for Diwali stay up till the last week of December?" - that's what Delhi-based writer Christine...
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Dear Santa, Can I Have A Divorce For Christmas?
As the courts start winding down towards the end of the year, I look forward to my Christmas vacation and the year-end ruminations that I engage in almost as a religion - a stock-taking of all the...
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Why George Harrison Was So Angry With Me In Calcutta In 1976
In this excerpt from Martin Scorsese's film on George Harrison, my name appears around the 45th second. Want to know how it got there? George Harrison was very angry. I could tell from the look on his...
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Facebook Is Not A Charity, And Nothing Is For Free
No corporate works for charity -- by intention and definition. To explain why Facebook's intentions are fraudulent, I will take the experience of Delhi's healthcare policy. Delhi decided to provide...
View ArticleDo Your Bit For Global Hunger: Stop Wasting Food
As children growing up we tucked into our fill of candy, ice cream and all the junk items that we can lay our hands on, not sparing a thought to the millions who go without a decent meal on a daily...
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'The Force Awakens' And The Flagging Cult Of Star Wars
I was there when the Force first awakened. This was in 1977, of course, when the first ever Star Wars movie (now called Star Wars 4: A New Hope) first hit the silver screen and took our breath away....
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Why We Need A Revolution, Not Just Evolution, In Education
The emergence of a knowledge-driven society demonstrated that everything can and must change and that the process of change is a continuous search for better solutions. Indeed, new scientific...
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The Misguided Debate On Intolerance In India
Concerns about intolerance in India have reached a feverish pitch in recent months. Incidents such as the ink attack against activist Sudheendra Kulkarni, banning of beef in certain states, the murder...
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Let Jyoti Singh's Light Shine On India's Daughters
I was 18 and I just started my English Honours degree at St Xavier's College in Calcutta. After years of wearing school uniforms, I finally had the freedom to experiment with colours and fashions. I...
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Is It Time To Abolish The Rajya Sabha?
In an editorial published on 8 October, 1999, The New York Times praised the Indian democracy in glowing terms, saying it "set a stirring example for all nations." The editorial averred that 360...
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Hooped By India
Persistence, Resistance and Courage - I have spent most of my life charging towards a distant goal with these three pillars. One would assume that now that I am in the WNBA, I couldn't want anything...
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10 Bollywood Films That Dared To Be Different In 2015
This year has been special for Bollywood. As someone who follows movies very closely, I have witnessed a breath of fresh air in Hindi cinema of late, with our filmmakers trying to be more experimental,...
View ArticleWomen Bleed, Not Goddesses
It's been the year of the "time of the month". People slept, ran and took selfies to make what they thought was a statement about the phenomenon of menstruation. In Kolkata, from where I come, students...
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Gallup-CVoter Poll: India Is Highly Optimistic About 2016
If faith can move mountains, hopes of a billion people can make or break political fortunes of leaders. According to Worldwide Independent Network Gallup International/Cvoter survey calculations of...
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How Modi's Moscow Visit Revived Fraying India-Russia Ties
As hoped and anticipated, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first state visit to Russia has imparted a big fillip to bilateral ties between the two countries. At the end of the 16th Summit between PM Modi...
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