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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2014 12:58:57 GMT 5.5
1. “Base erosion and profit shifting” issue at the G-20 summit in Australia has particular interest for India- comment.
2. How is Jan Dhan programme different from earlier version?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2014 17:37:59 GMT 5.5
Daily Test Questions
1. " India faces challenges from its neighbourhood as well as within the country in dealing with polio." Elaborate.
2. Name any two cases of interlinking of rivers in India in recent months and how benefits are expected from it.
3. “The soul is healed by being with children.” (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Daily Test Questions
1. US-China climate changes the nature of climate talks- answer from Indian perspective. 2. 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko- the technological and commercial interests behind reaching it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2014 8:17:42 GMT 5.5
Daily Test Questions 1. Global Infrastructure Facility (GIF) 2. Importance of 2014 Nobel prize for Economics 3. Reproductive rights of women in India.
Daily Test Questions
1. Reasons for targeting women for sterilisation operations. 2. Steps taken by the government for the drop in the rate of growth of inflation in India. 3. India's interests in South Pacific.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2014 12:54:49 GMT 5.5
Daily Test Questions
1. Examine the relevance of Zero Base Budgeting for India today. 2. Analyse the need for inflation targeting for India. 3. " Lotus effect" and its industrial uses.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2014 14:25:12 GMT 5.5
Daily Test Questions 1. Write on " Hand-in-Hand " exercises. 2. Soligas and their importance. 3. Do you think Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) needs amendments?
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Post by Lisbeth Salander on Nov 27, 2014 1:36:49 GMT 5.5
An open letter by EPW on the Sanskrit versus German debate - Sanskrit vs German.pdf (88.9 KB) A word of caution, it's a bit radical, you might want to tone it down.
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Post by Don Quixote on Nov 27, 2014 11:12:11 GMT 5.5
Kudos to the author of the open letter!
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Post by niksheth257 on Nov 30, 2014 22:09:53 GMT 5.5
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Post by Lisbeth Salander on Dec 22, 2014 23:46:33 GMT 5.5
Few questions on current affairs:
1. What had kept Cuba and the US estranged, long after the rest of the Cold War had disappeared with the Soviet Union, had been a small but powerful lobby in US. Critically analyze.
2. The future of the global satellite launch market is all about communication satellites, and it is imperative for ISRO to augment its launch capability constantly to compete with powerful rockets like the European Ariane and America’s Delta and Atlas that dominate the business of heavy-lift launchers. Discuss.
3. The challenge before Pakistan is to re-imagine itself as a nation, moving away from the two-nation theory, abandoning the quest to redraw its borders by force and settling for being the vanguard of modernity and democracy in the Muslim world. Critically examine the statement in the light of the recent Peshawar massacre.
4. Politics is the most important constraint on growth. Comment.
5. Disaster-induced deaths in the Asia-Pacific rose more than three-fold in the last decade, largely due to a handful of extreme disasters. Elaborate.
(self-framed from ET Edit page dated 19-22 Dec 2014)
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Post by Dr.vipin on Jan 16, 2015 4:33:32 GMT 5.5
Hi everyone
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Post by Lisbeth Salander on Jan 20, 2015 18:12:51 GMT 5.5
He was the first to foresee caste factor
Rajni Kothari, preeminent political theorist and activist, who in the 1960s developed the idea of the ‘Congress system’ to explain the party’s umbrella character that accommodated multiple interests within its fold, is no more. He was in his mid-80s and ailing for several years. Numerous books and commentaries that combined empirical research and theoretical originality make Mr. Kothari possibly the most influential thinker on the development of the Indian political system. Being an academic did not restrain him from donning an activist cap, and Mr. Kothari was an active participant in politics, most remarkably through his association with the People’s Union for Civil Liberties. “Rajni Kothari was one of the country’s most respected public intellectuals. He always spoke up and intervened on important issues and continued to do so even when his opinion went against the powerful, which is quite rare these days. He was an outstanding theorist of democracy and political change in India. He had an enduring influence on the study of Indian politics with his many books, especially, his magnum opus, ‘Politics in India’, and also ‘Caste in Indian Politics, and Rethinking Development: In Search of Humane Alternatives’, among others,” remembered Zoya Hasan, Professor of Political Science, JNU, New Delhi. Mr. Kothari founded the Centre for the Study of Developing Society in 1963 in Delhi, which grew as a premier institute, where a galaxy of India’s social scientists was based. He was also chairman of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, and in various capacities, mentored several generations of Indian social scientists. “ When the social science disciplines were dominated by the Marxian category of class, he posited an alternative category of caste. In the early 1970s it was seen with scepticism by contemporaries, but it became relevant later when political parties began to mobilise on caste grounds,” said Harbans Mukhia, historian. The Hindu
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Post by Don Quixote on Jan 21, 2015 13:16:26 GMT 5.5
The comment on the 70s and caste reminded me of this, watch for ~3 minutes from ~28:00.
People were a lot more idealistic and only then started realizing that nationalism for all its flaws was rosy, while caste was and remains a grim reality of our society.
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Post by Dr. Yatri Thor on Jan 21, 2015 22:39:44 GMT 5.5
How is the movie ? I like movies based on reality... I see 8.1 on imdb....started watching it now
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Post by Don Quixote on Jan 22, 2015 14:32:53 GMT 5.5
One of my favourite movies actually far so effortlessly mixing fact with fiction and setting up the story in the emergency era, no other title would have been apt for it.
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Post by Dr. Yatri Thor on Jan 23, 2015 2:31:34 GMT 5.5
I watched it yesterday...liked the movie...sad ending though..it was very realistic story.....I mean back thn emergency must have been too bad for all the opponent parties and ideologies....
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Post by CHANGEZ on Jan 23, 2015 21:35:39 GMT 5.5
Mitron vapis start karo yar! Ab toh obama bhi bharat aa raha hai!!
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Post by Mr. S on Jan 24, 2015 20:02:56 GMT 5.5
yeah lo CHANGEZ bhai...obama aaye to hum v aa gaye forum par.. how will you differentiate between make in INDIA and MADE in INDIA??do you think focus on made in india is more relevant to development of INDIA than make in india??support your answer with examples.
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Post by Lisbeth Salander on Feb 1, 2015 23:59:56 GMT 5.5
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Post by Mr. S on Feb 3, 2015 9:54:31 GMT 5.5
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Post by Mr. S on Feb 3, 2015 9:56:48 GMT 5.5
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Post by Lisbeth Salander on Feb 3, 2015 18:01:28 GMT 5.5
A critique of social sector schemes in India by MIT economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, in an interview with The Indian Express : Learning's not about enrolmentAn excerpt, Yamini Lohia: We just saw another ASER report that highlighted rather dismal learning outcomes for Indian children. What sort of interventions do you think will improve outcomes? Duflo: This was the tenth year of ASER and there has been very little progress in the last few years. We are failing the children on a massive scale. There has been improvement in enrolment and in the physical capacity of schools. But learning is not about enrolment, teacher-student ratio, having latrines in school; it’s about if we are serious about learning. But for first time, we have a plus side to this. We have been working with Pratham to evaluate programmes that can be scaled up and we are finally confident about two programmes. You don’t try to teach nuclear physics to someone who does not do subtraction. Instead, you start with subtraction. If someone doesn’t recognise numbers, you start by teaching them that. We organise kids by their level of learning and then move to the next step. You could do it by setting up camps during school hours and sending volunteers to teach. The other way is to embed it in the school system. But the problem is that teachers willy-nilly come to school and their day is focused on trying to teach the curriculum with a big C. We tried both models — teacher model and camp model. In Uttar Pradesh, we tried the camp model — 50 days over the school year, run by volunteers. The level of school is horrendous there, kids learn next to nothing in the course of the year. But the improvement due to the programme was important. We found that only 27 per cent of the children who didn’t do the camp can recognise a paragraph by the end of the school year as compared to 50 per cent for those who attended the camp. This is scalable. In Haryana, we tried to teach it through the government system. That didn’t have such a spectacular effect as in UP, but the results still went up — from 47 to 55 per cent. I hope this is scaled up. I think there is a big stumbling block in acknowledging that you cannot go anywhere unless you try to address this problem of learning first. The Right to Education Act did a wonderful job of making this problem worse because the Act replaced testing with this bizarre Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) which is neither comprehensive nor continuous.Banerjee: I think this in some sense is a problem of our inherited educational culture. We have a culture that is inherited from a colonial education system, which was explicitly aimed at recruiting an elite class that was going to work for them. We still think that anybody who can’t learn reading by themselves in Class 1 is a little bit of a buddhu. I think in some sense, a fundamental cultural shift is needed. The Right to Education makes it legally binding on the school to teach the syllabus. Parents have bought into that. Everybody thinks the priority of the school system is to cover all this material, instead of the idea that every child should be able to read, every child should be able to do math.
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Post by avinashagrawal on Feb 25, 2015 17:58:01 GMT 5.5
Why do we still use lord before name of britishers in india like Lord Irwin, Lord Delhousie?
Does it violate article of Indian Constitution?
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Post by Don Quixote on Feb 26, 2015 12:31:01 GMT 5.5
It is not for us to give titles to the Governor Generals of the British Era, the Queen did, and they died with the titles stitched to their names for eternity. The Constitution abolishes titles, so we do not give any. Even in cases where people were found to be using the award of Padmashri etc. as a prefix/title, as in Padmashri ABC, such people have been reprimanded by High Courts (there were two well known actors in AP who were rapped for this in last 2 years).
Now, neither does the state recognize any Kings/Queens, but for ceremonial reasons, so we still have a royal family of Jaipur/Mysore, etc.
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Post by avinashagrawal on Mar 11, 2015 16:39:32 GMT 5.5
Thanks Don Quixote
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Post by talespin90 on Mar 17, 2015 0:40:16 GMT 5.5
What are the advantages of increasing the cap in Insurance sector apart from government raising more funds ?
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