Monthly Archives: July 2012


Ensure quality rather than quantity

In the recent past there has been an excessive insistence upon quality assurance in higher education, especially in the universities offering post graduate degrees. President and intermittent evaluation by national-level professional bodies like NAAC has forced universities and colleges to show their worth in both quantitative and qualitative terms. As a consequence, various reformatory exercises […]

qualtiy & quantity

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A struggle with the Indian concept of meditation

For quite sometime I have been grappling with the Indian concept of meditation. I have evolved my own theory. In fact I have two theories  which contradict each other but are valid in their own ways. One is that meditation is intense concentration on a particular problem till you find the right answer. The others […]


Who wants to be the baadshah of binge?

Why did an insurance consultant form bengakluru agree to plough through six kilos of ice cream in 30 minutes? Probably for the same reason that an engineering student gobbled a 17-inch pizza in 12 minutes 27 seconds. Yolande D’mello on competitive eating making an XL debut in India.If the bread loaves stacked in the canteen […]

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