The JCB award: Promise of transparency
In a short and sweet event on 10 April, leading manufacturer of earthmoving equipment, the JCB Group offered a sumptuous Rs 25 lakh award to fiction writers in India, bringing equity to the prizes game. If the winning book is a translation, the translator will be awarded..
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When'll we derive the 'Outcome' in NEP?
Recent news reports state that the HRD Minister has announced in a television interview that NCERT syllabus will be reduced by half, and it will be introduced from the year 2019 academic session.
If you recall, the MHRD has also announced that assessment..
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The Life We Live!
What is the nature of human life? If you were to read Professor Jordan Peterson’s recent best-seller,12 Rules for Life, you will learn that human life is full of 'suffering' and our very existence in this world is a 'horrible' tragedy for which we need to 'make amends'. Life, in Peterson’s worldview, is 'nasty [and] brutish'.
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