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.
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COVER STORY
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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
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Let us try and give the students not just the IIT brand but a real education.
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2015 <i>Outlook</i>-Drshti Survey
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Architecture, Law, Hotel Management, Mass Com, Fashion Technology, Social Work...
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The top three remain the same in Medical (AIIMS, AFMC, CMC) and Dental: (Maulana Azad, Manipal College and Govt Dental College & Hospital)
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Top 10: Selection Process, Placements, Industry Interface, Academic Excellence, Infra & Facilities...
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Lalit Modi’s bombs blow up reputations everyday
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Praful’s death is a personal loss, but the bigger loss is to public life
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Freelance journalists, especially in small towns, are paying dearly for speaking up
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In Kerala, a superstar shows the light to a purblind minister
OTHER STORIES
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MEA seniors resent S. Jaishankar’s ways
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Uncalled-for attacks on the vice-president
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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.
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A regular column on the essential buzz
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A quiz on each of the nine streams
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<i>Outlook</i> in retrospect.
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It is a classic case of making a point loud and clear, without being influenced or being inhibited.
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I would suggest it re-evaluate its take and not be anti-establishment for the sake of it.
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On dying French philosophy and the battle for the Bad Sex Award.
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For much of the book, Tharoor seems to be taking his eloquence for a test drive, without taking us anywhere new.
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Complex China-Japan ties go beyond default ‘enmity’. Nuanced diplomacy must solve problems, says a study.
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The states of the nation: news, headlines, gossip, rumours, things we learnt
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All about guilt-free pakora eating.
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The writer and director on his new show on the Discovery channel
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A string of spectacular dance set-pieces linked together by random scenes.
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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.
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A random sample of letters in global media
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Engineeers fix things. They need to be cherished. Ideally by girls.
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What to read. What to watch. Whom to follow.
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Outgoing director of TISS S. Parasuraman on the growing demand for development professionals and the road ahead for social science education.
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A new breed of institutions is vitalising learning for the pleasure of learning
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Not the govt, remember 1975? Self-regulation is an oxymoron. My two bits...
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Five top lawyers on foreign law firms being allowed to practice in India.
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Now equal opportunity for girls also to become frustrated engineers
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Former Chief Justice of India M.N. Venkatachaliah on the need to create an environment of academic fervour.
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What to read. What to watch. Whom to follow.
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Rural India is feeling its gums, the country’s dentists are counting their caps
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Armed with a good idea and raw talent, the youth are striking out on their own
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LBS College of Engg dropout; Lookup, Bangalore
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IIT Bombay dropout, Housing.com, Mumbai
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Muffakham Jah College, Hyderabad; LearnEd, Hyderabad
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IIT Kharagpur; Instano, Bangalore
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IIT Bombay; LaughGuru, Mumbai
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DJ Sanghvi College of Engg; Stupidsid.com, Mumbai
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SCITM; Morphedo Technologies Pvt Ltd, Greater Noida
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CMR College of Engineering and Technology; CloudBoost, Hyderabad
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IIT Kharagpur dropout; Intugine Technologies, Bangalore
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They are young entrepreneurs in their 20s. Some of them write history.
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The Super 30 guru critiques the institution (and the exam) he readies students for
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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.
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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.
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The IITs, our top engineering colleges, are facing questions of quality, identity, autonomy.
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Basic systemic changes are needed to build world-class research institutions in India