COVER STORY
People of Indian origin have collected quite a few of the award that honours out-of-the-box and weird inventions. Here’s a quick look at desi award winners over the ages.
Outlook Magazine - 6 July 2015
India's Top Professional Colleges 2015
Let us try and give the students not just the IIT brand but a real education.
Architecture, Law, Hotel Management, Mass Com, Fashion Technology, Social Work...
The top three remain the same in Medical (AIIMS, AFMC, CMC) and Dental: (Maulana Azad, Manipal College and Govt Dental College & Hospital)
Top 10: Selection Process, Placements, Industry Interface, Academic Excellence, Infra & Facilities...
Freelance journalists, especially in small towns, are paying dearly for speaking up
Let us try and give the students not just the IIT brand but a real education.
2015 <i>Outlook</i>-Drshti Survey
Architecture, Law, Hotel Management, Mass Com, Fashion Technology, Social Work...
The top three remain the same in Medical (AIIMS, AFMC, CMC) and Dental: (Maulana Azad, Manipal College and Govt Dental College & Hospital)
Top 10: Selection Process, Placements, Industry Interface, Academic Excellence, Infra & Facilities...
Lalit Modi’s bombs blow up reputations everyday
Praful’s death is a personal loss, but the bigger loss is to public life
Freelance journalists, especially in small towns, are paying dearly for speaking up
In Kerala, a superstar shows the light to a purblind minister
OTHER STORIES
MEA seniors resent S. Jaishankar’s ways
Uncalled-for attacks on the vice-president
On the day Bhindranwale was declared killed, I, a Hindu stranger, was at his house. No one killed me for looking Hindu, but Sikhs in Delhi were massacred for being Sikhs.
A regular column on the essential buzz
A quiz on each of the nine streams
<i>Outlook</i> in retrospect.
It is a classic case of making a point loud and clear, without being influenced or being inhibited.
I would suggest it re-evaluate its take and not be anti-establishment for the sake of it.
On dying French philosophy and the battle for the Bad Sex Award.
For much of the book, Tharoor seems to be taking his eloquence for a test drive, without taking us anywhere new.
Complex China-Japan ties go beyond default ‘enmity’. Nuanced diplomacy must solve problems, says a study.
The states of the nation: news, headlines, gossip, rumours, things we learnt
All about guilt-free pakora eating.
The writer and director on his new show on the Discovery channel
A string of spectacular dance set-pieces linked together by random scenes.
Nearly all the drivers for the festival turned out to be women, most of them students at one of the city’s many Islamic universities.
A random sample of letters in global media
Engineeers fix things. They need to be cherished. Ideally by girls.
What to read. What to watch. Whom to follow.
Outgoing director of TISS S. Parasuraman on the growing demand for development professionals and the road ahead for social science education.
A new breed of institutions is vitalising learning for the pleasure of learning
Not the govt, remember 1975? Self-regulation is an oxymoron. My two bits...
Five top lawyers on foreign law firms being allowed to practice in India.
Now equal opportunity for girls also to become frustrated engineers
Former Chief Justice of India M.N. Venkatachaliah on the need to create an environment of academic fervour.
What to read. What to watch. Whom to follow.
Rural India is feeling its gums, the country’s dentists are counting their caps
Armed with a good idea and raw talent, the youth are striking out on their own
LBS College of Engg dropout; Lookup, Bangalore
IIT Bombay dropout, Housing.com, Mumbai
Muffakham Jah College, Hyderabad; LearnEd, Hyderabad
IIT Kharagpur; Instano, Bangalore
IIT Bombay; LaughGuru, Mumbai
DJ Sanghvi College of Engg; Stupidsid.com, Mumbai
SCITM; Morphedo Technologies Pvt Ltd, Greater Noida
CMR College of Engineering and Technology; CloudBoost, Hyderabad
IIT Kharagpur dropout; Intugine Technologies, Bangalore
They are young entrepreneurs in their 20s. Some of them write history.
The Super 30 guru critiques the institution (and the exam) he readies students for
Any institute of higher learning needs to produce knowledge rather than just pass it down to the next generation. Unfortunately, that is not true of the IITs.
Prof C.N.R. Rao, a Bharat Ratna and recipient of over 60 honorary doctorates from across the world talks about the quality of our IITs.
The IITs, our top engineering colleges, are facing questions of quality, identity, autonomy.
Basic systemic changes are needed to build world-class research institutions in India
