Tag: India
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The woes of migrant laborers
The human civilization is passing through the worst kind of crisis. The war against an unseen enemy is never easy to win. If we look back and search in History, we can see only once, maybe, we suffered like this during Spanish flu in 1918 and which lasted almost for two years. Now it is…
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Women Power
An awe-inspiring morning spent in the convocation ceremony of our University with Padma Shri Dr Kamini A. Rao. Seeing and listening to a personality of this calibre and stature left me awestruck. I am very much elated to see a lady who managed home and hospital with equal pace, set up South India’s first infertility clinic,…
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India- its freedom and its agony
It is estimated that 88-90% of the households in India have a mobile phone but 44% of the population continues to defecate in the open. People in India do not have access to toilets, clean sanitation and safe drinking water. Unfortunately, these are the issues which are overlooked by the subsequent governments of the country in the…
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Reservation
Reservation- the word very close to any Indian’s heart. Everyday, I remain curious for the prompt word and yesterday I giggled and smiled on seeing the most precious word. The most ‘hot’ word, the most ‘argumentative’ word, the most ‘cyclonic’ word, the word which can topple the government is RESERVATION. Yes, you heard it right,…
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Top 10 Smartest Countries in 2017
One of the most popular ways to measure intelligence is by an IQ test. There are other ways to measure intelligence in a nation as well like school test scores in areas like science and math. Another way to look at the intelligence of a country is to examine a country’s contributions to the fields…
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CRY OF A TALENTED SOUL: What India do for its talented flocks?
If we want to realise the Indian progress and success in research and innovation we will have to count the Nobel prizes. The bitter truth is since 1947, there has not been a single Nobel-prize winning scientific or technological discovery, despite India’s successes in space, radio astronomy, biology and pharmaceuticals and the worldwide reputation of…
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