Fact Files

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When all of a sudden the number of IITs were doubled and the intake in each increased fivefold or so, there was hue and cry. I recall I posted a blog about it.

Now listen to today's news:

The intake of Engineering Colleges in AP has been enhanced by 42,000. This takes the total intake in AP alone to about 3 lakhs in its 714 Engineering Colleges. But there are only about 2 lakh aspirants. They have to merely appear in an Entrance Exam, just to get their inter se merit rating. The absolute marks they get could be zero or even negative.

DC: "As per a recent Nasscom survey, only about 10% of students graduating out of engineering colleges in the state are employable".

gps: It doesn't mention what the others do with their degree...your guess is as good as mine.

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DC: After the 9/11 attacks, there have been no terror attacks in America because of its policing apparatus, but Mumbai continues to face terror strikes time and again...

Julius Ribeiro: You cannot compare the situation of Mumbai with that of the United States. We live in a very dangerous part of the world whereas the US is far away from the hub of the Islamic world.....

gps: As Thurber's Mathews put it neatly: "The setup is different"

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DC: At best, former Scotland Yard senior officers acknowledged in interviews, the police have been lazy, incompetent and too cozy with the people they should have regarded as suspects. At worst, they said, some officers might be guilty of crimes themselves...The scandal has embroiled Britain's police, who are accused of being too close to News Corp, of accepting cash from the now defunct News of the World tabloid that was at the heart of the scandal, and from other newspapers, and of not doing enough to investigate phone-hacking allegations that surfaced as far back as 2005.

gps: Deja vu from Robert Clive and Warren Hastings...it is tough to say whether they corrupted India or vice versa...I guess for over two centuries India and England lived in a cozy symbiotic relationship...each learning from each. I am told that Napoleon scornfully remarked that Britain is a nation of shopkeepers...I think India should protest vehemently.

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Ishani is here...Joy in the Morning!

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