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Ramesh Mahadevan, a close friend from my grad school days, passed away last night. I'm posting a quick note here to alert some of his fr...

From Gandhi to Arindam Chaudhuri is the title of this illustrated history. Absolutely great stuff from the Free Speech Journal, appearing a...

When I wrote the post on #StandWithJNU yesterday, I was not aware of a petition that students in IISc and NCBS (and, probably, several othe...

These are depressingly bad times for higher ed institutions in India. If administrators were the victims of authoritarian excess in iconic ...

It's a year late, but the excerpts at Scroll.in from Rakesh Batabyal's book JNU: The Making of a University are interesting. Here...

Some of you may know about the DST Centre for Policy Research (DST-CPR) at IISc , which is a part of a network of five Centres set up with f...

In The Telegraph today , Prof. Venki Ramakrishnan (who will visit India soon for a vacation and a lecture tour) says a lot of sensible thin...

The three purposes of the University?--To provide sex for the students, sports for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. -- Clark Kerr, ...

Orinam , an LGBT support and advocacy website, carried a report two days ago -- “To the person who wrote the note”: Bengaluru student respon...

From the Ethicist feature in NYTimes Magazine : Should I Tell My Friend’s Husband That She’s Having an Affair? : ... [If] your assessment i...

… he turned to Mr. K. Narayan, a graduate from our Department at IISc waiting to join the Bhilai Steel Plant that was being created [the sto...

The IMPRINT India initiative website has quite a bit of information about its focus domains each of which is subdivided into several sub-th...

A lot of hue and cry is raised about our higher education institutes not figuring in global ranking. The reason is not lack of high quality ...

That's the name of a new initiative "to develop a roadmap for research to solve major engineering and technology challenges in ten ...

Anubhuti Vishnoi in The Economic Times : Centre to fund 10 institutes for next 3-4 years to help them find a place among top 100 on global a...