Like I said, we started our practicals recently and so far, I'm not impressed. Science practicals were already a disappointment but, computer practicals were even worse. First of all, I love computer...

We've read about this countless times in the newspapers or on the internet. But, I never believe it. Well, there are times when some Americans really, really mess up their English. Not just the...

India is known for it's vast culture. Now, it's a secular country, but most of the natives are Hindu. And the Hindu religion has 33 crore (330 million) Gods. That's 7 0s after 33. Well, there's...

We recently started our terminal examination in school and as always, we started with the practicals. I'll discuss the oral examinations later because...that's something else entirely. But, we had...

Well, it is a known fact that Indians are good with computers. In fact, it's more of a racial stereotype. But, that really isn't true. Out of maybe 1.2 billion Indians, a few million are good with...

Few days ago, this incident took place in the capital of India. And then, now, they're probably going to kill the tiger. I don't get it, what did the tiger do? He just defended himself from...

I'm not sure if any absurd traditions exist in western cultures but we have too many. Maybe God accidentally gave traditions that were reserved for the westerners, to us Indians. And we over do these...

In India, Feng Shui is known as Vastushastra. 'Vastu' means thing and 'shastra' means science. That drives me crazy. There is nothing scientific about Feng shui or Vastushastra. It's all superstitious. When...

Right now, me and a few students from my school are writing various articles for the NIE newspaper, more on that later. But, me and my friend were asked to write an article about the CREO and Robotics...

To all the foreigners that follow my rants, 10th grade is one of the most important years in a student's life in India. All year round, we have exams which count to the final exam, the board exam....

Every year, a school in the city hosts a series of computer related competitions. Students from the 3rd grade to the 10th grade can participate and the topic ranges from MS Paint to HTML. Of course,...

For a while now, I've seen certain teachers pick on certain students. As in, they blame them for things they don't even do. Of course, the students do something to piss her off. But, when one student...

I think what a lot of teachers don't understand is that, we have other subjects. Because, we're given homework for all subjects and we have to study all the subjects as well. But then, if we complete...

So, most of the students get bored during classes like Geography, History, Marathi etc where there is no real "audience" participation. Every student has different ways of over-coming this boredom....

For years I've been hearing adults sigh and say "Today's youth is like the western children. Even our country has become like western countries." as if that's a bad thing. But, when I watched a few...