Learning and Life

I often see parents excessively worried about the economic future of their child. They are often projecting their own insecurities and thei...

Reflections on "An Indecent Obsession" a movie and book by Colleen McCullough (author of "Thorn Birds" which I read in ...

I was around 10 when I saw the movie "To Kill a Mocking Bird" on PTV in 1971-72. That was the time when I didn't focus on th...

The rigor with which your hypothesis are tested and the methodology that is pursued differentiates a PhD from an MS/MPhil [1]. A PhD is hel...

Is Doctrine of Necessity dead and buried as proclaimed by Supreme Court in its decision of March 2012? Wherein it stated that " decidi...

I always recommend people to see "Last Emperor" movie about Pu Yi, who was the last emperor of China. His rule was only in name ...

Why I am a faculty member: (1) Meeting a student who graduated a long time ago and who comes over and tries to make me recall  him and his ...

[To understand the context of this post, please read  At What Cost! Why Compute Economic Costs of Faulty Political Decisions ] There are...

Today on Facebook I saw a video of some old students of Aligarh University reciting the official anthem in New York with a great deal of e...

Over the last 25 years as I desperately try to connect my students with the joy of reading and poetry, at universities and at schools , I ...

[To understand the context of this post, please read  At What Cost! Why Compute Economic Costs of Faulty Political Decisions ] There is a ...

We need to compare the Doctrine of Necessity version 2.0 of SC Justice Khosa (2017) which states "To do a great right, do a little wro...

This post explores the myth that Public Universities Cost Lower than Private Universities. I think the average cost per student per year of...

How can we create readers and an ecosystem where readers can thrive. How do we make reading a contagious disease when our educational ins...

Quality of literature review is what majorly differentiates a PhD Thesis from an MS Thesis. The qualitative difference is in the digestion ...

Why social media has become the primary source of fake news. Why people in social media communities are likely to become extremists, bigote...

Schools are producing graduates who know how to read but are not readers. They have become non-readers (functional illiterates) because th...

This is the first orientation of new students of IoBM over the last 23 years, where our founder president, Mr Shahjehan Karim is not presen...

I am coming across research proposals and dissertations where there is a section heading called "Problem Statement" under which y...

My supervisor JC Browne at the University of Texas at Austin during 1990-1993 made me write the problem statement and the thesis statement...