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Amerikka Desi (அமெரிக்க தேசி) is my first Tamil novel (yes, you read that right; no spelling mistakes from my end either) published by Tam...

Basant Kumar Mohanty of The Telegraph makes an excellent catch ! The HRD ministry had sought the DoPT's views after the tech school ci...

Two important constituencies back Shevgaonkar: IIT-D faculty and IIT-D alumni . In an effort to debunk all kinds of allegations emanating ...

Three things. First, via The Telegraph , we get some details on how Prof. Shevgaonkar was being pressured into settling the Subramanian...

Shocking , if true: IIT Delhi director Raghunath K Shevgaonkar has quit more than two years before the end of his term. A senior IIT offic...

This month saw two significant events in higher ed elsewhere. The first was in the US, where the Department of Education released a "d...

A neat study by Ian Gregory-Smith, David Paton, Abhinav Sacheti -- Not really cricket: Home bias in officiating -- confirms what many fans ...

Vi Hart and Nicki Case have created a web page with very instructive browser-based and visually attractive simulations: Parable of the Polyg...

Miki Tanikawa of NYTimes profiles Prof. Yoko Tanaka , the first woman to lead a "major Japanese University": The traditional, m...

Ranking of universities in the US has thrown up several cases of fraudulent reporting by places like George Washington and Claremont McKenna...

Cat Ferguson, Adam Marcus, and Ivan Oransky in Nature : Publishing: The peer-review scam . "When a handful of authors were caught revie...

There are just too many bizarre twists in this sequence: James Watson auctioned off his 1962 Nobel Medal; the highest bidder, a Russian mult...

This was really sad to read about an academic superstar [ see this NYTimes profile ] with millions of student fans across the globe: MIT i...

The tale of a professor of negotiation tangling with a mom-and-pop restaurant owner over 4 dollars is, like, totally awesome ...

Here are a couple of links if you are in the mood for a rant about Indian science establishment: Free Science from Oligarchy by A. Jayakri...