Taxes down the drain!
Little learning in government schools

ASER 2005 — the country’s first independent nationwide survey of rural primary education — confirms deep-seated public suspicion that post-independence India’s elementary education effort has been a massive failure

Rising foreign influx into international schools

Even as the annual inflow of foreign students into the country’s crumbling institutions of higher education has declined, a quiet revolution is transforming India into an international hub of high quality English medium secondary education

Singapore’s myriad charms

A shopper’s paradise and one of the busiest business hubs worldwide, in 2005 this island city-state (682 sq. km) attracted 8.94 million foreign tourists — a tourism inflow 100 percent greater than of India (3.84 million sq. km)