Can Sam Pitroda spark India’s overdue knowledge revolution?

After more than a decade in the wilderness US-based multi-millionaire Satyen (‘Sam’) Pitroda, widely acknowledged as the author of India’s astonishing telecom revolution has been recalled to head the National Knowledge Commission. Its mission impossible: to transform the world’s most illiterate nation into a knowledge society

Growing popularity of the IB diploma

In 1997 when the Mahindra United World College of India became the first exclusively Plus Two school to offer the IB diploma study programme, it created a minor sensation in haute bourgeois India. Since then 27 schools countrywide have signed up affiliation agreements with the International Baccalaureate Organization, Geneva

Bright future in star gazing

Though academics and rationalists dismiss it as mumbo-jumbo, few celebrities and opinion makers sign major contracts or make career moves without consulting astrologers — a flourishing tribe

Hampi — testimony to a golden age

One of the 16 Unesco recognised World Heritage sites in the country, Hampi is getting an overdue infrastructure facelift for the imminent Hampi Utsav scheduled for early November