From Rio with Love
by Vivek Prasad India has put up a fantastic show at the Paralympics Games held in Rio, Brazil, with a rich haul of golds, silver and a bronze. Ever since the names of the 19...
Daily Archive: October 4, 2016
Happiness Quotient – 1
Shiva Shanmuganandam @SadaaShiv Without context thereās no meaning, just words, concepts, mere jargon albeit interesting. This is becoming more and more relevant in our present age of the information super highway. When intelligence matures and...
To learn or to unlearn
Shiva Shanmuganandam, @SadaaShiv If you wereĀ inĀ school during the 1980sā to ā90sā till 2000, you were part of what is knownĀ as a transition in an educational system that still reels from Macaulayism (after Thomas Macaulay the...
Tolerating Tolerance or rather Intolerance!
by Vivek Prasad One of the raging topics today is the issue of tolerance. While a section of the society feels that India is quite tolerant as compared to other volatile parts of the world...
Tamil Nadu’s twin woes: power and water
by SVS In power-starved Tamil Nadu, a look at the arithmetic reveals the actual situation. The state needs around 11,500 MW, but is able to generate only around 7,500 MW. To address the shortfall, authorities...