In response to Gurucharan Das’ oft-repeated, sweeping characterization of public schools in the country as ‘a mess’, Abi points to the Kendriya Vidyalayas as one example of government-run schools that do better than private schools:
One of the things that infuriate me about Gurcharan Das and his ilk is the fact that they dismiss oh-so-casually all [...]
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Where are the good public schools?
Published by April 9th, 2008 in Business, Caste, Education, Government, Human Rights, India, Infrastructure and Regulation. 0 CommentsBudget 2008
Published by March 1st, 2008 in Business, Democracy, Development, Economy, Education, Government, Health, India, Policy, Politics and Regulation. 0 CommentsJagdish Madan in a pre-budget summing up of the economic and political situation in the country, looks at some crucial issues:
…rural employment plan, which guarantees 100 days of work for one person in every poor household, was the priority of the government. The plan was the government’s attempt to address some of the countryside’s biggest [...]
Roche finds chinks in India’s patent regime
Published by January 19th, 2008 in Business, Health and Regulation. 0 CommentsShamnad Basheer discovers that the granting of a patent, covering an AIDS drug, to Roche in India reveals certain lacunae in Indian laws:
This breaking news is certainly going to cause problems for the Patent Office. For one, it raises serious issues about the lack of transparency at the Patent Office. Why wasn’t Lawyers Collective [...]
Amit Varma wonders how George Orwell would view the Big Brotheriness of the Mumbai police.
If Orwell were brought back from the dead, I presume he’d chuckle and think how little things have changed. He would certainly have been bemused by happenings in India. A few days ago, Mumbai’s police revealed their plans to install [...]
Novartis: would new patent claims result in increased medical bills?
Published by September 2nd, 2007 in Health, India, Policy, Regulation and Science & Technology. 1 CommentRamadoss Magesh, who has been diligently running a cancer support blog for more than two years now, linking to news, developments and useful information on the issue, writes on a recent ruling of the Madras HC on a petition filed by the pharma giant Novartis. Magesh looks at the larger issues of costly research on [...]
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