Kunal

India has had ‘Free and Compulsory’ education on its statute books for several years now. In fact, Article 21A of the Constitution of India places an obligation on the Government to provide ‘Free and compulsory education to all children from the age of 6 to 14 years’. In the midst of corruption scandals, even the UPA managed to enact...

The term NGO by itself stands for “Non-Governmental Organisation”. Generally speaking, this refers to non-profit organisation engaged in charitable activities or similar forms of social welfare. In India, these organisations enjoy a tax-exempt status if they are eligible under Sections 10 and 11 of the Income Tax Act, 1961. We see a lot of media coverage of these NGO’s...

The academic career of students in India tends to be geared towards acquiring steady jobs. Engineering, accountancy, economics, even basic sciences are not exempt from the attraction of job-oriented learning. This is not a phenomenon unique to India; it is worth noting that the Industrial revolution changed the occupational profile from artisanal and agrarian all over the world. Of late,...

Arranging for the cost of higher education is as nerve-wracking as qualifying for the course itself. While this is true for education within India as well, it becomes a particular concern for overseas studies, since exchange rates and cost-of-living can inflate costs considerably. In this context, let us look at some of the most common ways students from India should...

The world is beset by more problems than Governments can solve. Poverty, malnutrition, violence, disease – and these only scratch the surface. It should come as no surprise then, that NGO’s (Non-Government Organisations) have such a heavy presence the world over. From the richest countries to the poorest, NGO’s often step in to fill in the cracks where official...