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By Vipul Anekant I still remember the first time i heard the word ‘Alhamdulillah’. Unfamiliar with its meaning, i discovered its profound simplicity: ‘All praise is due to the Almighty.’ This simple utterance struck a deep chord. Why say Alhamdulillah when something good happens, instead of claiming ‘i did it’ or ‘i deserve it’? Why…

Comms apps usually stay a step ahead of govt restrictions. Plus, they’re too useful  Imagine a storm knocking down a cell tower in a remote village. People are marooned, without any way to communicate with… Source link

Right in the middle of Berlin lies one of the largest curiosities any European capital has to offer. That sounds like a bold claim – Europe’s capitals are, after all, full of fascinating history and culture. But I mean large in the most literal sense of the word: over 950 acres, to be precise. The…

The appointment of Nandan Nilekani to lead a high-powered taskforce on exam reforms is welcome. It gives India an opportunity to move beyond recurring outrage over paper leaks and fix a broken system. The issue this committee must address, however, is not merely the leaking of question papers. Deeper challenge is how to design and…

Sometimes, communication apps can work even when the government shuts down the internet. And these apps can be very useful. Imagine a big storm knocks down a mobile phone tower in a remote village. People… Source link

What do the kids want? To reset the algorithm to reality Kamala and the kids came into the living room where I was sprawled on the sofa watching news. She firmly took the remote from my hand and switched off the TV. An ominous silence filled the room, replacing the comforting babble of the news…

While moves to make NTA leak-proof are welcome, India should revert to a less centralised exam system One good outcome of the youth protest is that govt has become serious about exam leaks. It’s proposed longer jail terms and heftier fines for culprits, and also set up a committee with the mandate to make exams…

Making exams safer is a good idea. But India should not depend on just one national exam system One good thing that came out of the student protests is that the government is finally taking exam paper leaks seriously. It wants tougher punishments for people who leak question papers. It has also created a committee…

A group of cockroaches is called an intrusion. Cockroach Janata Party lived up to the description, intruding into the political fortress of a govt that had cared little for opposition voices for 12 years. But the real surprise was elsewhere. As students took to the streets over irregularities in NEET, the political parties of Tamil…

The language of modern physics is math, which makes its appreciation difficult outside the club of physicists and mathematicians. People are not interested and sometimes intimidated in reading physics written in mathematical formulae, which makes no sense to them. However, one formula of physics has captured public imagination more than anything else, i.e., E =…