Educational Matters
I don’t know about the sciences, but in the social sciences in the old days every undergraduate student in Oxford and Cambridge was required to write two essays per week which were then discussed with the tutors. It was hard…
The Internet in “Digital India”
Among the initiatives launched with much fanfare by the NDA government is the one titled “Digital India”, which is slated to use high speed internet as a core utility and provide citizens entitlements, documents and a host of services on…
Questioning India’s GDP figures
A post-Budget survey of 189 CEOs and CFOs has found that a majority of them find the Central Statistical Organisation’s new growth estimate of over 7 per cent for 2014-15 to be too optimistic and “too good to be realistic”.…
Software Services: Some cause for comfort
India’s software and IT-enabled services sector seems to have weathered the global crisis well. Figures just released by the Reserve Bank of India, which place computer services exports in 2013-14 at $71.4 billion, point to a continuation of the smart…
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