Category: Education

Masterclass on Personal Finance by Dr. Anil Lamba

Dr. Anil Lamba is a legend in the field of Finance, especially educating professionals about Finance for Non-finance. He is a CA, but he found his calling in training/teaching. Over the years he has developed a knack of teaching concepts of finance in simple and lucid language. I was pleasantly surprised when he sent me... Continue Reading →

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NIRF 2024 Rankings

Ministry of Education has implemented National Institute Rankings Framework (NIRF) for evaluating and ranking educational institutes in India. NIRF just released their rankings for 2024. NIRF or any such rankings are good example of Goodhart's Law which states:“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”Our education industry (yes, it's an industry... Continue Reading →

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Happy Teachers’ Day!

Happy Teachers' Day to all! Today, 5th September, is celebrated in India as Teachers' Day because it happens to be Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan's birth anniversary. Dr. Radhakrishnan was the second President of India and also an educationist. In India we also celebrate Guru Paurnima - a day to pay gratitudes to our Guru. Guru is... Continue Reading →

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More on Wordle – Part 2

I wrote "More on Wordle" few weeks back where I shared many interesting formats of Wordle. And I thought that was it. There was nothing more to be explored or improvised in this format. I was wrong - partially. Yesterday I came across a map variant of Wordle which I found very interesting and hence... Continue Reading →

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Math Fun: What Is Emirp?

Do you know what "emirp" is? An emirp is a prime whose reversal is a different prime. A cyclic emirp is an emirp that generates only more emirps when the last digit is successively moved to the front (or vice-versa). The largest known cyclic emirp is 939,391.

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Thomas Sowell’s Basic Economics

Dr Thomas Sowell, Americal Economist born in 1930, is a living legend! In our Economics classes I don't remember our Professors talking about him much. Or maybe they did so in passing and I didn't notice. So I was torally unaware what a genius this man is! I discovered him during last year through Twitter... Continue Reading →

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What Makes Great Institutes Great?

What makes great institutes great? In particular, what makes great educational institutes great? I have often thought about both these questions since the time I studied Organizational Behavior. My Professor, a thorough Englishman, had a very humorous way of teaching a boring subject like OB. He talked about organizational Structure and Culture and how the... Continue Reading →

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