India is a country full of people who aspire for greater heights, work hard and dream big. We Indians are known to be ambitious and for our work ethic worldwide. We have an affinity for education and we are expected to do exceedingly well at school and college. We basically give a lot of importance to education and degrees. While that is a good thing, we have not quite evolved … [Read more...]
Am I Not Educated If My Degree Does Not Read B-Tech Or MBBS?
2015 is the year. It has been 68 years since India became independent, but when will the Indian students gain THEIR independence. What fights must a student fight in order to stop being judged for what he or she chooses to study? What will it take to make the Indian society stop labeling anyone who doesn’t choose to study engineering or medical as a no good? Why does the bias … [Read more...]
Engineering Made Her Feel Sick. And Suicide Became Her Final Cure Because Of Her Father.
What if one day, you tell your parents that you want to quit engineering because you want to study English literature, and take writing as a career? Tell them that integrations and 3-D geo are completely out of your scope? Don't know about your parents, but after a year of studying in one of the most prestigious engineering colleges of the nation, Deeya's parents won't let … [Read more...]
How Much Life Changes After Doing Engineering In India And The Aftermath Of It!
‘Engineering’, a single word which speaks a million lines to each and every individual in a million ways. As a huge scrum of Indian youth graduates every year from engineering colleges at this time of the year, there is also a big question mark printed in red upon each individual’s head. The question is ‘What’s next?’ Most of the individuals do not have the answer. It’s the … [Read more...]
The current Indian education system has actually got great potential, but what’s stopping it?
Indians schools have produced numerous scientists, philosophers, astronomers, engineers and so on. But with such an immense population and such huge potential, it’s quite surprising that still no school has climbed up in the top 100 schools in the world in any stream. We migrate to other developed and developing countries for graduation and higher education like Spain, South … [Read more...]