Bharat Rakshak

As of now, the best use for profs in IISc/IITs is to stop loading them with three courses a year tripe often nuff. Hire more lecturers and TAs for the teaching needs. Allow the professors to focus on research. Throw away the old lot that cant refocus on research -- and trust me, there are these old...

actually I was also TA in two 4th yr UG courses in my time. the class was cse in kanpur - packed with top 100 types. there was plenty of cheating and copying going on projects and assignments even then (mid 90s) long before kota system had risen to stardom. after careful observation of the class of...

IITs having limited land, hostels and manpower cannot both be a huge teaching shop for UG (as it is being dragged into today) AND be a huge r&d setup like MiT. the money also doesnt exist at present for such a MKization. Massa has the money , the huge endowments and endless land for this. The m...

Two news items from the Chindu,

With Venezuela

Egypt seeks India investment

Cross posted from Islamism, Geert Wilders movie Fitna

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7d9_1206624103

Stealing a nation - a classical award-winning documentary on the perfidy of the US and the UK governments on Diego Garcia. Comes in six parts and is 60 minutes long. A thousand curses be upon the two wretches. Look for South Indian names in the documentary - Leonie Rangaswamy and the lawyer, Maratoo...

I think this one is important and has to be retained for posterity, not to be lost. A few days back, Beeb had come up with this. The Conquistadors raped and pillaged America and took the women as slaves, and loads of them. Here is the original paper from the source. Also look at other papers from he...

Folks how to save the TIFF or DIVU files for later viewing? I use irfanview for tiff. Its a free download, just google for it. Make sure you also download its plugins. It lets you view almost all graphics formats. Never used divu, do you mean djvu? Ramana, djvu are supposed to be device independent...

SwamyG wrote:

I am all for the truth but only with those who want to learn, not with those who have a hidden agenda.

So what hidden agenda do I have?

I meant the western thinktanks that "place" ideas in the heads of interviewers to confront visitors with such questions, not you.

Stan_Savljevic, if I understand then: we should claim that India never attacked any other country, irrespective of the truth or untruth of that statement, because the opposite claim might be used against us by western "thinktanks". Is this an accurate summary? Two questions here. One, how...

The claim that India never attacked another country seems to be a badge of honour for some people. Is that true, and if so, why is it? Surely we all would have preferred that Indian explorers colonize Europe than the other way around. Why the pride in not having done something that's part of human ...

for folks posting pandapoker stats with reverence ... how come a country that prodces 10x PhDs per year compared to India has only a 2.5x share of global publications? ... most folks I know will not touch a pandaPhd with a 10 foot pole ... AFAIK, a good % of Chicom PhDs in the US return to HK/Spore...

How about something simpler and less esoteric: Cellphone, Wi-Fi, Wi-Max, Sattelite TV? No need to spend all that money digging and laying cable.... The only wire you need is an electrical wire. There are two sides to this. The industry side and the academia. Academia-wise, India is not doing much e...