Society

No politician stops his speech without mentioning the fact that ‘65% of Indians are below the age of 35’. I am also talking about this section of the population. Today’s youth is tomorrow’s old aged! Imagine after 2 decades, the number of Indians who will be over 60 years ( …

  This Sunday I had been to a house warming function. At the function, I was spending time conversing with small kids. I asked one of the kids (around 12 years old) about eating at hotels. She gave a list of reasons for not eating out! I have reproduced the …

  The whole world is connected. I remember the early days (70s and early 80s) when the only channel of communication was through Inland letters, post cards and telegrams! The excitement of going to the Post Office and waiting to receive a post is history now. Before the mobile technology, …

  Last month there was news about ‘rice puller’ trying to cheat a businessman of Rs.10 Lakhs. Honestly, till I read this article, I had no clue about ‘rice pullers’; I knew only about rice prices! (The price per kg of Rice was Rs.1.25 during early 1980s and it is …

  I can proudly say this – I didn’t pay any fee for getting my CA degree! My fees for CA course were waived and the Institute gave Merit scholarship during my Articleship program (1991). Today I thought of writing about the scholarship and fee concession programs of CA Institute. …

How much money is the government spending on primary education? This is where I stopped the article yesterday.   Number of teachers in India: There are close to 60 Lakh teachers in elementary education (primary schools) in India. Government of India is spending around Rs.25,000 Crores on primary education and …

Are the students attending classes regularly? Definitely NO. The HM says, the average attendance is 50% (means 50 students in a school, 7 students per class) and out of the students attending the class, atleast 50% of them sleep or are drowsy in the post-lunch sessions.   When HM was …

  I did my schooling in Government Middle Primary (GMP) School in a remote village of Karnataka. To begin with, let me list out what we didn’t have at that time in our school. There was no electricity connection, no proper toilets, no tap water, no free books and no …

Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary which falls on October 2 is observed by the countries of the world as the World Day of Non-violence. Let us take a quiz to check how well do you know Mahatma Gandhi Read Also Gandhi Thatha – We remember you   [mtouchquiz id=5 startscreen=’off’ showanswers=’end’ multiplechances=’off’]   …