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The children pay for their elders' greed
In the guise of preparing students to become doctors and engineers, they are traumatising young minds. R. Ravikanth Reddy on Andhra Pradesh's education ''factories''.

Pressure cooker atmosphere
"THEY LOOKED like people hijacked and put in concentration camps." This observation was made by M. Neerada Reddy, Vice-Chairperson of the Andhra Pradesh State Council for Higher Education (APSCHE), who headed the panel constituted to study the ...

The politics of remaining `neutral'
By V. Jayanth

CHENNAI, APRIL 27. In Tamil Nadu, the Sri Lankan Tamils issue and the LTTE problem have a critical bearing. And now, the communal flare-up in Gujarat has become a national issue. Strange as it may seem, the erstwhile ruling party, DMK, has ...

Rigorous regimen
Their day begins at 4-30 a.m. and ends at 10-30 p.m. if they are lucky. A. Saye Sekhar on the punishing schedule students face in these colleges.

Can anti-secular parties govern?
By K.G. Kannabiran

Can any party govern India without subscribing to secular values? Is democratic governance possible without recognising the claims to equality by the minorities? Can they be accorded the status of citizenship in a theocratic state? The ...

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