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| Viable universities |
| Set conflicting goals, centres of higher learning cannot prosper |
| The universities cannot continue to be viable if they are set contradictory objectives. In the typical case, the Indian university is expected to produce hundreds of thousands of graduates every year, and these numbers keep rising... |
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| Mob menace |
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Sir — Calcutta witnessed, yet again, vandalism in one of its private hospitals (“Peerless vandalise ... |
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| INFLATION WORRY |
| The Reserve Bank of India’s annual monetary policy announced on Tuesday was not as aggressive as most expected, but in his po...|
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| PARTY TIME |
| Mukul Sangma could not have asked for a better birthday gift. He was sworn in as Meghalaya’s chief minister on his birthday. ...|
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| Dying Flame |
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Forty-three years ago, Naxalbari had come to be seen as the spark that would set the Indian prairie on fire. Not only did tha... | Read.. |
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| Righteous among the nations |
| In 1942, during the German occupation of Tunisia, a 31-year-old landowner, Khaled Abdul-Wahab, risked his life to save 24 people of two Jewish families from the Nazis. Of the ... |
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| The many winding ways to closure |
| Saying sorry can be a great leveller at times. The need to apologize is essentially a personal one, and indicates a feeling of some sort of remorse on the part of one who wish... |
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The world owes all its onward impulse to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
— NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
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