Tony Cookson: How similar are the markets for textbooks and drugs?
Charlie Stross: What Amazon's E-Book Strategy Means.
Mihir Sharma: Our Creamy Layer.
India is the most elitist, exclusive, unequal and stratified country in the world, and we don’t even know it. The Indian elite – which smugly calls itself the “middle class”, since it alone benchmarks itself globally – has constructed walls of privilege for itself that are all the more powerful for being invisible to many eyes. And if not invisible, then concealed behind other words — “culture” and “merit”, for example.
Data on suicides in IITs, IIMs and NITs for the years 2009-12 [via Satyanarayan's tweet].
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
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Data on suicides is a start, but deeper analysis is required to address the situation. In the past month alone there were reports of 3 student suicides in Chennai. Interestingly, students on the one hand are demanding unbridled liberty on campuses, but on the other hand all three of these suicides seem to be at least partially a result of such unbridled liberty. But the media, at least, seems to handle this issue one-sidedly. For more on this, see my new blog http://indillect.blogspot.in
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