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Education
Crusaders of science
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2003
a piece of inspiring information was in store for the 1,000 delegates who assembled in Shimla during the second week of October 2003 to be a part of the latest biennial conference of the All India People's Science Network (aipsn).
Research on thin ice
Issue Date: Sep 30, 2003
Motion and change are the sum total of a glacier's life. These massive ice-fields were for long considered a delightful compromise between the seasonal variations in snow level. However, the balance of nature has now melted into the past. Despite looking the picture of tranquillity while metamorphosing, glaciers are today on thin ice -- a reality out in the cold in India. A perfect example is the lip-service given to research on the Gangotri glacier -- the largest ice mass in the Ganga basin.
Website review: www.arkive.org
Issue Date: Sep 30, 2003
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Miseducation in Bastar
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2003
It was August 15, 2001, Independence Day, in an adivasi village of Bastar in Chhattisgarh. Two primary school teachers had invited me, the only adult literate in the village, to unfurl the national flag. I had arrived, but one of the teachers was absent, owing to a week-long drinking spree. Mahua! That destroyer of many a Bastar official.
Testing time
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2003
a severe water crisis spawning an acute shortage of textbooks? Strange but true.
Just 40 hours
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2003
till about a year ago, Gauzia Begum Mohammed, 40, and Velimela Kalavathy, 35, residents of the Bandalguda village of Andhra Pradesh, were counted among the 35 crore Indians who could not read or write. Not anymore. Both have learnt to read. Gauzia can now sign her name and Velimela knows what her kids are taught at the school.
Late click-off
Issue Date: May 15, 2003
The information technology (IT) revolution has finally reached Afghanistan. The country's first batch of IT students recently graduated from Kabul University with industry-standard certificates in computer networking skills.
Desperately seeking experts
Issue Date: May 15, 2003
The environmental situation in India is grave -- our natural resources are getting depleted at an alarming rate and there is an acute paucity of expertise to combat this crisis. Like any other government department, the Union ministry of environment and forests merely goes through the motions.
NCERT textbook: An excercise in multi-culturalism
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2003
ncert Textbook
Back to school
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2003
The Afghanistan government and UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) will begin a new training programme for teachers before the new school year begins next month. Four million Afghan children are expected to return to school, many of them for the first time since the ouster of the Taliban regime.
