February 2013 – Vadakkus!

The Story of the Indian Education System – Macaulayism Origins

vadakkus13 years ago11 years ago27 mins

For 4000 years until the arrival of the first invaders some 700 years ago, India had a history of creating intellectually superior awesome people who invented the Zero, Calculus, monstrous baths and discovered the meaning of life among other things. But it went all downhill from there and unfortunately all that we seem to be…

“Aren’t You Educated?” What Education?

vadakkus13 years ago11 years ago37 mins

The incident of cruel violation and subsequent death of a hapless 23-year old woman, though shocking in magnitude, was unfortunately only another one among the stream of bad and worse news emanating from our country every day for the past 65 years. Be it about infrastructure, politics, economy, education, transportation, healthcare, crime against women and…