I’m Mugunth Kumar, a post graduate who will be completing my Masters in Singapore this year (in another two months). In the year 2000, I approached Indian Overseas Bank for getting an education loan for financing my undergraduate studies. The manager was very adamant and was not interested in giving me a loan as I don’t meet the “required” criteria (bribe on demand?) and rejected my loan request. Nevertheless, I was...

As a sequel to my previous blog, I thought of throwing some light on the Quality of Education in India. This blog focuses primarily on the under-graduate and post-graduate education in India. For those who have not read my previous blog, I discussed about the benefits of education focusing primarily on what a professional education could give an Indian Citizen. Now, onwards to the new topic… We all know that, in Tamil nadu alone, we...

We all are aware of the fact that India is all geared up to educate its citizens by all means. But how many of you agree with this? How many of us are really benefitted by this? What is the meaning of education to the Government? How is the Government going to see to it that the education system is democratic? Democratic, by the word, I mean education that not reserved based on caste. Let’s tackle this issue one by one. Firstly, the...

Will India grow to threaten biggies like US/UK or will we leave China to grow past us? We all say that China has a lower population of young aged people and hence by 2020, India’s growth will be unprecedented to China’s. How many of you agree? At least I don’t and I’m quite skeptical. China’s literacy rate is 99% as opposed to India which is less than 75%. Now to the distribution of the literacy rate, it’s very uneven here....