Posted by: Aadisht on: August 25, 2008
P V Indiresan, the former director of IIT Madras has a comment piece in the Times of India today on how the JEE has run its course. His prognosis is gloomy – there’s no way to improve the entrance test without decreasing the number of applicants: World-class universities like Harvard and Stanford get 10-11 applications [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: August 22, 2008
Today’s wikisurfing led to this remarkable piece of information: Early in its development, the Merlin engine’s lack of direct fuel injection meant that both Spitfires and Hurricanes, unlike the Bf 109E, were unable to simply nose down into a steep dive. This meant a Luftwaffe fighter could simply “bunt” into a high-power dive to escape [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: August 19, 2008
Sorry, couldn’t resist that title. Andy Mukherjee has a column about the IITs making the admission criteria public, how coaching factories are skewing the results, and how there’s no readily apparent way to get through this. It doesn’t say anything that hasn’t already been said in Indian newspapers, but it puts everything together much better.
Posted by: Aadisht on: August 19, 2008
Last week, as a son of the Punjabi soil claimed a Gold medal at the Olympics, all the credit went to India. Shortly after that, Independence Day was celebrated, cruelly ignoring the fact that there is no Azaadi for Punjab. Our destiny is in the hands of power brokers from UP and Bengal. Why are [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: August 8, 2008
An edited version of the article below appeared in the New Indian Express today. They cut a few lines, and I prefer my own paragraph breaks, but I have to give them credit for coming up with an awesome headline. Anyhow, here’s the article in its unedited form:
Posted by: Aadisht on: August 2, 2008
The Kansa Society’s advocacy of the slaughter and consumption of children is making its way into the mainstream media. This is most pleasing. First, Namy Roy informs me over GTalk that she had recently watched a TV interview of Tom Hanks. When asked how he managed to satisfy the audience all the time, Tom Hanks [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: August 1, 2008
In the name of Amibah, the most powerful, the most vengeful, I welcome you to www.wokay.in, the new home of Givvup Only Are There. The shift over from aadisht.net has happened because: aadisht.net seems to be one a spam database and has been getting rogered by spambots the past few months. I kept going over [...]