Importance of Class X Boards

Recently, we heard Kapil Sibal, the Union HRD Minister, speak about how he wanted to get rid of the class X Board exams, and have just one nationwide exam, i.e. Class XII Boards. Mixed reactions came. While some people believed in Sibal’s thinking that this would reduce the pressure on students, some thought that this [...]

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Pakistan bombed?

With all the happenings in the last, say 6 months, is it fair to say that Pakistan’s global image and goodwill has been bombed along with the buildings and streets? I am afraid, yes. Not that Pakistan had some ’safe-as-a-bank’ kind of image earlier, but the last 6 months have really pushed it too far. [...]

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In turmoils part deux

While the first one was for Indian football, this one’s for Pakistan cricket after the attack on the Lankan team bus today.
Some 14 months after a test was last played inside the Pakistan border, Sri Lanka went there just to show some solidarity. The first test was, in mild terms, a disgrace of a test [...]

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Drying up

The mornin’ newspaper does throw in the odd surprise. While leaving for my college, I had a dekko at the newspaper and saw the picture of a desert and the next pic was of a pond. Below them, I saw the caption : “This is Badkhal lake in 2009, and that was Badkhal lake in [...]

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When politics reigned over cricket…

So we won’t have the Pakistani players in this year’s edition of the IPL. Sad. Very Sad. We have, once again, let the guns rule over bats and balls. The cricketers are the worst hit. Just because someone from their country had ideas for some ‘fireworks show’ in Mumbai, they are now reduced to pawns [...]

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