Category: Random Draws

I believe the answer is yes. This may surprise some of my readers. I am speaking FOR the motion that “Most investments in technology for schools are wasted” at an Oxford style Education Technology debate in Delhi on 21st of April. The debate is under the aegis of Infodev of the World Bank. Details below. Continue reading ““Are Most investments in technology for schools wasted?””

Sorry people, I have been distracted with things — traveling places, meeting important people, thinking deep thoughts — you know the drill 🙂 So do write what’s on your mind in the comments. It’s been a while since the last open thread. Say what you will. Also, here are a few random things that I have come across recently. Continue reading “Open Thread — Say what you will”

If you have not read the modestly titled Huffington Post piece — The Future of God: A New Theory of the Divine — by Dee-Quack Deepak Chopra, you have missed out on world-class intellectual nonsense. Continue reading “The Secrets of Dee-Quack Chopra”

There is a very famous woman in India who is a Roman Catholic. Roman Catholics take as their undisputed leader the Bishop of Rome, aka the Pope, or Papa. You’d have thought that in this day and age, people would have given up on medieval superstitions. Most have but some — even some very powerful people — are superstitious. How superstitious? Continue reading “The Devil in the Vatican”

When someone reads out an email address and reads “@” as “at the rate of.” That reveals a marked inability to deal with symbols. Continue reading “These are some of my un-favorite things”

I am an internet Hindu. The wannabe part refers to the card-carrying bit. What we Internet Hindus(tm) chiefly need are genuine laminated identity cards. Commies and pseudo-secularists no doubt have their official authorized genuine cards. So I too want one. I am sure that among the hordes of Internet Hindus(tm), there must be some who are good at creative graphic design. You may ask, “How do you know there are hordes of Internet Hindus(tm)?” Here’s how. Continue reading “I wannabe a Card-carrying Internet Hindu”

I have often wondered where the pseudo-seculars of the Indian main stream media — the Burkhas, Sataricas, Amendhatis — got their education. One conjecture I have is that they got bussed to school — on the Samjhauta Bus — to Pakistan’s Punjab province. Continue reading “The Education of Pseudo-Seculars”

One of the tools that I use quite frequently comes from Arc90.com. Continue reading “Useful tool: Readability from Arc90”

In a 11 March rediff article titled “Mediocrity has become the norm“, the transcript of an interview of Arun Shourie makes interesting reading. I especially like his views on how Indian education has to change.
Continue reading “Arun Shourie’s Interview on Rediff”