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Board exams

Recently the HRD minster Kapil sibal announced that there will be no board exams for 10th and he will be planning on not to have 12th board exams as well in future. This announcement has triggered to lot of debate in media, students and parents. some of the students are really happy that they need not have to study and get pressuried. some of the teachers are pitching in for continous learning and thus might get more control on students than earlier. But still there are lot of unanswered questions on having board exams or not. Every body are keen to know about all details from government on board exams. Board exams are in india for long time probably we inherited it from the british. Primary purpose of the board exams was to assess the student's performance and provide feedback to the student.Board exams results are looked into before admitting any student into higher education institutes, before selecting a candidate for a job, etc. Earlier this system worked perfectly simply beca

Murry mania

It is not andy murry britain's no 1 tennis player. I am refering to Al Murry, the pub landlord, is simply hilarious and wonderful to watch and listen to his comic stuff. I am indian and no where connected to britain expect for colonial period in early 19th century, during that time i was not even born. but i could get 90% of his jokes, few i went and re-listened to make sure i understood correctly. His concept of jokes is about Pubs and he prefers to be called pub landlord. In pubs people talk about different topics and they have their own opinion for every topic in the news. And most of the opinions are funny and one cannot really argue with a drunk guy who is simply adamant on one thing and about his point of view. Pub landlord is really patriotic in nature and loves britain so much that he hates all other countries and french being the top of the list. He likes the queens band and thinks all other bands are only second to queens. Every name which he hears becomes a beautiful bri

what would have happened ?

what would have happened? few years back, i had received a email from my friend with the subject what would have happened if 1 ruppee was equal to 40 dollars?. The email had detailed description of how people in US and across the world would be dying to come to advanced country like India and their implications in terms of visa,climate,studies, food and other things. I was just thinking on same lines as that email and though little more than that email. In what condition would have made india like US and US like India. I went back to days of Columbus. Columbus started of his voyage to find India and not US, it was just a co-incidence that he discovered US and people during that time felt US was indeed India for few days and they still call the Native Americans as Indians. After this finding US, europeans started to move from europe to US and started to colonize US and there was war,trade, competation and supermacy. Eventually it was the britsh who started to control the US from england