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@malpani Computers allow recording of work everyday! This should be used to gauge the strength of knowledge, skills, etc. Holding an exam once or even at most intervals (annual, half yearly, etc) looks such an antiquated way !

Waiting for exam results adds so much unnecessary stress and anxiety and is such a waste because exams are really an exercise in futility.

It’s basically a cluster of 5–6 buildings, all covered with banners advertising computer courses. If you visit, it feels like everyone is trying to teach everything.

@svembu Wow! Interesting background. Book, Problem of Rupee, by the brilliant Dr BRAmbedkar will give new insights into the issues in the Indian economy. No one promotes this book because current rulers exploit the masses the same way the British did earlier. x.com/i/status/19848…

In the 1980s, most IITians would go abroad. In 1989, when I graduated from IIT Madras, I remember feeling extremely dejected about our country. Punjab, Kashmir and Assam were all burning. My heart was not in engineering. I was mostly reading books in Economics and Philosophy - we had a good library. The burning question in my mind was "Why are we so poor?" Some of my classmates and I wrote an article in the IIT campus newspaper in late 1988-early 1989 (there were two newspapers, Focus and Spectator, and I believe we published in Focus, they were reproduced using "cyclostyling" machines - please look them up!). In my vague recollection, the thrust of the article was that the IIT system was failing to serve the needs of the country and the country itself was facing a profound stagnation (I wish I could get that article now - a copy may be in some dusty basement in IIT). I want to know what I thought and said as a 21 year old in 1989 that I agree with and what I disagree with today. By 1989, I had become a committed anti-socialist, having lived through the socialist stagnation of India. By 1989, the collapse of the Soviet Union was on, and China was in turmoil - the Tinananmen student protests and their forced suppression. By 1991, India needed an emergency IMF loan. The 1991 economic reforms by Shri Manmohan Singh happened due to pressure from the IMF. So you can imagine the mood in 1989. That was the India I left in 1989. I was feeling miserable to leave but hopeless to stay. In 1990, I came home for a visit and thought of dropping out of my PhD and staying home. I was home sick. I started to study Singapore and Japan during 1990-94 in my PhD years - the "Why are we so poor" question. By 1994, I decided I would be in the private sector and took up an R&D job in Qualcomm.

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The state of Uttar Pradesh killed a baby today. Not a metaphor. Not an exaggeration. A baby is dead tonight in Lucknow, and the state killed her as surely as if it had put its hand over her mouth, one hospital at a time. My driver Irfan brought his wife home from her mayka on the 15th of April. She was seven and a half months pregnant. They were counting weeks. They had a name ready, probably. They had the small, foolish, beautiful hopes that every parent has. By the evening of the 16th, their baby was dead. Not of illness. Not of fate. Of Uttar Pradesh. She went into labour this morning. A local nursing home delivered the baby. The placenta was retained, surgery was performed to remove it, and a tiny premature girl came into the world alive. Alive. I want you to hold that word for a second, because everyone who met her after that moment had one job, and that job was to keep her alive, and not one of them did it. I got the call and set out to reach them. First, fuel. Three separate pumps on the way, not a drop of diesel at any of them. There is a war on, the supply is choked, every driver in north India knows it. But the government of Uttar Pradesh wants you to know sab changa si. Everything is fine. Nothing to see here. Just a man going pump to pump begging for enough diesel to reach a newborn he has never met, while somewhere across the district a baby the size of two palms is starting to struggle for air. By the time I arrived, the nursing home had run out of things it could do. No incubator. Move her somewhere else. Good luck. Her mother was still admitted there, recovering from surgery. She could not come. A baby barely an hour old was about to begin a journey across Uttar Pradesh without her mother, because the state had not bothered to put an incubator within reach of the women it claims to serve. Protocol, we were told, does not allow you to take a dying baby directly to a better hospital. You must first visit the nearest CHC and collect a referral, like a coupon. So we went. The doctor was on leave. Attending a court hearing. Somewhere in this state a doctor was arguing his case in front of a judge while a baby in his jurisdiction was running out of breath. His assistant scribbled a referral to Barabanki District Women's Hospital, and we went. At Barabanki, we took a premature newborn up to the fourth floor. A nurse attached oxygen. Looked at her. Told us to go to RMLAU or KGMU in Lucknow. "Whichever is better." That was the medical guidance. Whichever is better. Pick one. Good luck again. We were in a government ambulance, and a government ambulance in Uttar Pradesh can only take you to the next government facility that will turn you away. So we drove the better part of an hour to Lucknow, the baby gasping the whole way, every minute longer than the one before. RMLAU first. Third floor. I showed a doctor the referral. He was with another patient, half-distracted, and while he was talking to them he informed us, almost in passing, that there was no vacant NICU bed. He did not examine the baby. He did not read the note properly. He said it the way you tell a cousin the sabzi is over. Out. By now I had seen enough. I told the family we should go private. I knew what was coming. But the ambulance we were in could only take us to another government hospital. So we went to KGMU, because the rules said we had to, and because what else do you do with a baby who is running out of time except keep moving her. KGMU. The largest government medical institution in Uttar Pradesh. The pride of the state, if you believe the press releases. Fourth floor. Same answer. No NICU bed. The doctor did not take the referral note in his hand. Did not look at it. Did not look at her. Refused. Let me say this plainly, because if I soften it I am doing a disservice to a child who is not here to be softened for. A premature newborn, gasping, oxygen running, referred from a district hospital, was brought to the two biggest government hospitals in the capital of Uttar Pradesh, and neither of them had a NICU bed for her, and no doctor at either place so much as looked at her. Two hospitals. Not one bed. Not one bed in the entire capital of the largest state in India for a baby born that morning. Outside KGMU I flagged down a random ambulance, handed the driver 1,200 rupees in cash, and we drove to Nova Hospital in Patrakarpuram. Five minutes. That was the gap. Five minutes behind the ambulance carrying her, I reached Nova. And they told me she was already gone. She was alive when she left the nursing home. She was alive at the CHC. She was alive at Barabanki. She was alive at RMLAU. She was alive at KGMU. She was alive until the government of Uttar Pradesh was finished with her. Somewhere tonight, Irfan is trying to figure out what to tell his wife. She came home yesterday. She was seven and a half months pregnant yesterday. She is still admitted at the nursing home, still recovering, and no one has told her yet. When they do, she will wake up every day for the rest of her life into a morning where she came home pregnant and left without a child. This is not a system that failed. A system that fails at least tries. This is a system that refused. One fuel pump after another that the government says is fully stocked. Two flagship hospitals that the government says are world-class, both without a single NICU bed between them. One doctor after another who would not spare ten seconds. One referral note after another that no one would read. A mother kept away from her newborn because the state could not provide an incubator, and a newborn kept from a hospital bed because the state could not provide one of those either. A baby is dead tonight in Lucknow because the government that cannot keep diesel in its pumps, cannot keep doctors in its CHCs, cannot keep a NICU bed free in either of its flagship hospitals, and cannot keep a referral note in a doctor's hand, would like you to believe sab changa si. @myogiadityanath, hang your head in shame. You run this state. This happened on your watch, in your capital, in your flagship hospitals, under your government's protocols, with your ministers telling the country every day that Uttar Pradesh is the model the rest of India should follow. To the Health Minister of Uttar Pradesh, to the administration of KGMU, to the administration of RMLAU, to every bureaucrat who signed off on an ambulance policy that would not let a dying baby go to a private hospital, to every officer who told the press the diesel supply was normal, to every PR account tweeting sab changa si tonight, hang your heads. A baby died today that every one of you could have saved, and not one of you will lose a minute of sleep over it unless we make you. Sab changa si. Tell that to Irfan. Tell that to his wife when she wakes up. Tell that to the baby they never got to bring home. @myogiadityanath @BJP4UP @CMOfficeUP @UPGovt

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@mr_gaurav_800 @malpani @DNEWSPAPERGUY Gaurav, I like your plan. These school students will benefit a lot from the POD! I'm just curious what type of charge are the students able to pay for this type of education. I want to encourage few people in Jaipur to do something similar.

Why I want to start my ApniPathshala POD watch this 7-minute video to understand my complete perspective. I’ve shared a clear understanding of my locality, a proper explanation of the POD, and how I plan to make it work. Let me know your thoughts . @malpani @DNEWSPAPERGUY

What are you talking about! Sal Khan had been so ahead and so right on the online education. I and my family have benefitted a lot.

@mpershan What are you talking about! Sal Khan had been so ahead and so right on the online education. I and my family have benefitted a lot.

Over the past 15 years few people have been wrong more frequently than Sal Khan. chalkbeat.org/2026/04/09/sal…

@Audible_ind I have to cancel membership And website is taking me through the loop .. I've tried calling your toll free number from outside India as I'm out of country. How can I get help?

The wait is finally over! ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: The Full-Cast Audio Edition’ is here for your listening pleasure. You’re welcome!

Our free AI tutor at cbse.eklavya.io is going to make commercial coaching classes for school students obsolete. Why waste money trapped in a crowded classroom listening to lectures , when you can study for yourself at home along with your friends?

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Will Trump send them to Iran , now that there are vacancies?

All week people have emailed me telling me that Alpha School selects for the top 1%. While I can't speak to Alpha School's application process, I can say my kids test similarly to theirs on standardized tests like the PSAT when it comes to math ... and it's 100% because they use/d AI tutors and the tech stack we talk about in this episode (Prodigy/Synthesis Tutor/Math Academy/Physics Graph). I realize it's uncomfortable to ask why AI improves results over teachers. And it's worth exploring. Some of my thoughts ... The "problem" with grades 4-12 of Math, is that most teachers "teach the grade" and math is cumulative. So, if you didn't learn something from grade 6, you're in a lot of trouble by the time you get to grade 8. With very few exceptions, your grade 8 teacher is not going to teach you (or the entire class) grade 6 math and as a student in grade 8, you'll resist it if you know it's grade 6. One of the primary reasons that AI is better is that it simply teaches you what you need to know, regardless of your grade level. It says you don't know X, and you need to know X to do this problem, so let's learn X. And it never tells you that it's grade 6 and you should have learned this years ago, so you just learn X. Another problem is the way maths are taught now. In a lot of schools, including my kids, they never had to "memorize" multiplication tables. And if you don't know them, it's ok. That sounds all fine and dandy, until you realize it takes up a lot of working memory in grades 8-12 -- working memory you need for other things on the problem. We only have so many working memory slots. It sucks but most "improvements" to education over the past 20 years, have had negative impacts on objective learning. The biggest thing we can do in this moment is raise the bar on what we expect from kids, focus on what works based on evidence, and make AI tutors free to the bottom 75% of each math class today. If you're a parent, this is a must listen. (Even if you disagree with the conclusions).

To understand Bitcoin you need to be INTJ, INTP, INFJ, ENTP or INFP and have an IQ over 125. That’s 0.75% of the population.

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I have never been taught how to set priorities; for me, everyone is important, and saying NO feels like hurting them. Trust me, it has cost me my peace.

Moments like this give me and my team a different kind of energy. When a student from one of our PODs reaches this level, it reminds us why we started. Back to work. With more clarity, more responsibility, and a lot more hunger. @kssdtrust @apnipathshalain

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Yesterday 38k people liked his story. 11000 shared it. Most had never heard his name before yesterday. So here is the part that did not make it into yesterday’s post. Manjunath Shanmugam was shot 6 times on November 19 2005. He was 27. IIM Lucknow graduate. Indian Oil Corporation officer. Killed for sealing a petrol pump selling adulterated fuel in Lakhimpur Kheri UP. 8 accused were convicted in 2007. Supreme Court confirmed life imprisonment for 6 of them in 2015. In January 2023 the UP government quietly released one convict. His name was Shivkesh Giri. Reason given. Good conduct. He had served 17 years. Manjunath served 27 years of life before someone took it from him. India does not forget its cricketers. It forgets its honest officers.

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