Student speak: Continuous and comprehensive evaluation

Meeta Sengupta30 July 2013, 11:41 PM IST Listen to the Children Series: On CCE Once in a while children say it better than we can. As I was scanning all fora, newsletters, blogs, conference papers, presentations, academic papers and all the...

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Telengana, Jharkhand fixed…..Congress looks at UPA3 with new hope

Prashant Panday31 July 2013, 10:20 AM IST In the end, Telengana proved to be an easier-than-thought problem. Newspaper reports indicate how by removing Telengana from "erstwhile" Andhra Pradesh (it's a little unnerving how words like erstwhile...

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Chennai Express

Meeta Kabra31 July 2013, 05:26 PM IST Oh dear...There's not a moment in this trailer that doesn't induce a cringe, except for the one shot in which a car explodes. And that reminds you it is a Rohit Shetty film and you cringe again. From the...

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OECD's BEPS Action Plan - Part 1

Lubna Kably30 July 2013, 09:22 AM IST Will countries agree to a level playing field for corporate tax? Perhaps not and this could be the main stumbling block for curbing BEPS                                       ...

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The contested ideas of Rayala Telangana

Kingshuk Nag30 July 2013, 04:46 PM IST Hard-nosed analysts know that although India is a democracy, Indian politics is all about caste. The Congress in Andhra Pradesh has been the domain of the Reddys ever since it struck deep roots in this...

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India’s street eats showcased in a London dining room

Zoe Perrett30 July 2013, 06:32 PM IST What do you know of British Indian restaurant food? If you've had the chance to sample a small selection, you probably think it's a bit of an eccentricity peculiar to the folks of my green and pleasant land....

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Restaurant review: Ristorante Prego (Italian)

Rashmi Uday Singh27 July 2013, 10:29 AM IST I'm dining with Mumbai's senior-most Chief Commissioners of Income-Tax and I'm in my comfort zone. At Nariman Point's brand new Ristorante Prego, there's comfort food of pasta, pizza and sandwiches...

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Back to an ominous oxymoron

Dileep Padgaonkar26 July 2013, 09:26 PM IST The BJP's star campaigner, Narendra Modi, has been wowing audiences with his mantra of effective and clean governance, economic growth, development and a muscular approach to internal and external...

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Rs 32 a day is not enough. But subsidies make it’s value 3 times….

Prashant Panday27 July 2013, 11:17 AM IST As is typical with our obstructionist opposition and ill-informed media, the issue of the definition of the poverty line (Rs 32 a day) has turned truly bizarre. For starters, the exact sum of money used...

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Grilled Basa in pesto mix

Kalyan Karmakar25 July 2013, 04:51 PM IST The Vietnamese Basa fish has flooded the markets of Mumbai. The high price of local seafood favourites... pomfret, surmai and rawas... coupled with the low supply of the same in the monsoons has helped...

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Cops and robbers, together they can

Parakram Rautela25 July 2013, 05:06 PM IST Instead of simply locking them up and throwing away the keys, South East District Delhi Police have decided to offer ex criminals counselling, education and vocational training, in the hope of weaning...

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Detroit, Delhi and small town Indians

Archana Khare Ghose25 July 2013, 07:08 PM IST On the face of it, there is nothing that instantly connects Detroit with Delhi, and certainly not with Bhopal — my hometown from where I moved to the national capital 13 years ago.  But in...

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Bad meat - the head always stinks first

Veeresh Malik24 July 2013, 03:27 PM IST   Decades of hard effort as well as good training by friends who live along the coast and on islands has given me a reasonably good idea on how to select and judge sea-fish for our kitchen. Yes,...

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Amartya Sen and the ayatollahs of secularism – part 3

Minhaz Merchant24 July 2013, 03:33 PM IST Dr. Amartya Sen compels me to return to a subject India should have long buried: secularism. Dr. Sen's definition of secularism is as misty-eyed as that purveyed increasingly by secular liberals who...

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Scrap AFSPA, save India

TK Arun24 July 2013, 03:59 PM IST Scrap the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), not only to resolve the conflicts in Jammu and Kashmir and the north-east but also as part of reversing an ongoing weakening of the country's democratic institutions....

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Whether Modi divides the nation or not, he is surely dividing his party!

Prashant Panday23 July 2013, 10:29 AM IST Two stories in today's papers suggest that Modi's ascension to the top of the throne in the BJP has created quite stir. Whether Modi divides the nation or not, he is dividing his party up for sure! The...

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Jack of all malls... master of none!

Swati Sucharita23 July 2013, 03:55 PM IST The other day, the strap of my high-heeled sandals broke, most exasperatingly, on my way to a wedding venue. Anyone who has shared my predicament would appreciate just how vulnerable one feels on such...

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Doubles prize money is charity; lack of gratitude Jwala's speciality

Amit Karmarkar23 July 2013, 05:12 PM IST It's time we rename tennis and badminton doubles something more realistic.For, some of India's ordinary singles players who go by the name of doubles 'specialists' are under the impression that they are...

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Gujarat Shining…..but Gujaratis?

Prashant Panday22 July 2013, 08:07 AM IST Today's TOI brings out more facts and truths about Gujarat – not tainted by any PR spin –seriously questioning just how good the vaunted development model of the state is (Gujarat slides in both rural...

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