Harini Calamur's Writings
This appeared in the FPJ on the 22nd of March, 2021 Last week, two stories went relatively unnoticed. The first was Manipal Institute being declared a containment zone, after 50+ cases of COVID were detected. The second was over 100 students in…
I write for CNBC TV18 ‘ You see sir, I can talk English, I can walk English, I can laugh English, I can run English, because English is such a funny language’ said Arjun Singh, played by Amitabh Bachchan, in the Bollywood…
I write for the dna on education, skills, and how the advances in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics are going to wipe out entire job areas; and what skills do we need to combat this. source: Here One of the things that…
My Column in the DNA, on the 17th of October A few years ago I was on the interview panel of a leading Indian University that had just launched an honours degree programme in Economics. We, me and another professor, were…
My column in today’s DNA The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009, known simply as the RTE, came a century after Gopal Krishna Gokhale made an impassioned plea to the Imperial Legislative Council for introducing Free and Compulsory…
Dear Government, Good to know that you are off life support and on your own two feet. One hopes that you can move full steam ahead and deliver things that your earlier version couldn’t. Given that you are fighting fit, here are…
Two stories on further education. One is about a 12th standard topper who quits formal education. …Urvi Pithadia, 17, has been forced to discontinue her studies just a week after joining junior college. Nobody there volunteered to help the wheelchair-bound girl in…
Nita has an interesting post on tuitions/coaching classes and this actually began out as a response, but it grew so very long, I decided to post the long form here, the short version is on her site : There are coaching classes…
…..Indians will take your job, warns Uncle Bush. “It’s important to understand if children don’t have those skill sets (in maths and science) needed to compete with a child from India, or a child from China, the new jobs will be going…
A few months ago AP began the trend of reserving jobs for Muslims on the grounds that the community was ‘backward’. Now the RJD and the Congress in Bihar have made a similar promise. There is something fundamentally wrong, if in a…