After visiting India in 1835, Lord Macaulay said in a speech to British parliamentarians, “I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief – such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such caliber that I do not think we would ever conquer this country unless we break ...
Read More“Why did you give too many As?” Growled the HOD of my university at an academic who had awarded As to most of the students of our class. The teacher, a true scholar with a command over his subjects, knew how to keep the students captivated in the class, and importantly engaged in the subject. “Let the students be duly rewarded for their efforts,” he chimed. At the same university, another teacher shared with us the ...
Read MoreDeath of any human can stir tears. And if someone dies young, the grief not only wells up the eyes, but shakes the soul also. When I heard about Zaheer’s death I could not, but wail out the opening stanza of the Shelly’s elegy on Keats. Even though “his fate and fame shall be an echo and a light unto eternity, I felt as though light had gone out of my life!”He was my student, ...
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