Opinion: Why IIT Founder Nehru Wanted Arts for Engineers

Rukmini Bhaya Nair | Wednesday August 19, 2015

For the most part, I believe, the long suffering IIT students seem to enjoy their 'HUKKAH' courses because these allow them, as they sweetly put, to 'learn to relax'.

Opinion: 4 Urgent Questions Provoked by the IIT Roorkee Controversy

Rukmini Bhaya Nair | Monday August 17, 2015

There is plenty of anecdotal evidence from the IITs, old and new, to suggest that poorer, rural students are finding it increasingly hard to keep up with others in both classroom and social space.

Opinion: The Pros and Cons of PM Modi's Silence

Rukmini Bhaya Nair | Tuesday July 14, 2015

His 'freedom of speech' is, so to speak, restricted by what he does not know.

Opinion: An IIT Teacher's View on the Madras Controversy

Rukmini Bhaya Nair | Sunday May 31, 2015

If the political right to protest is sacred, both inside and outside Parliament where so many 'unacceptable' statements have been made of late, then so is the individual right to dissent.

Opinion: Satya Nadella and Manjul Bhargava on a Coding Secret

Rukmini Bhaya Nair | Tuesday May 26, 2015

The internet trinity of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg all agree on a simple article of faith. Schoolchildren, college students and most everybody should learn to code because programming a computer "teaches you how to think".

Opinion: Pappu and Feku - the Best We Can Do?

Rukmini Bhaya Nair | Monday April 20, 2015

Societies across the globe indicate respect for others through forms of language. In India, these customs are particularly rich. Pronouns like 'aap' as well as common endings of verbs such as 'aaiye', 'baithiye', 'suniye' (come, sit, listen) in Hindi and other Indian languages all convey especial deference.

Opinion: Dear Universities, Is Menstruation Unacceptable

Rukmini Bhaya Nair | Monday April 06, 2015

We continue in many ways to be a 'chee chee!' culture, says Rukmini Bhaya Nair.

Opinion: The Ides of March for Kejriwal and AAP

Rukmini Bhaya Nair | Monday March 16, 2015

Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar' is a play about personal loyalty, political conspiracy and public anger. In it, a seer warns: 'Beware the Ides of March'. Well, that would be about now, mid-March - perhaps as good a time as any to take stock of the drama of political loyalties in India.

Opinion: What Deepika Padukone Has To Do With Budget 2015

Rukmini Bhaya Nair | Thursday March 05, 2015

Budget Day in Mumbai was rainy and grey. Dalal Street must have been abuzz but fewer than usual of the city's inhabitants were out on the streets. Those who were, though, would be dwarfed by huge hoardings of Deepika Padukone everywhere.

Opinion: Kejriwal, Nitish and the Art of Saying Sorry

Rukmini Bhaya Nair | Thursday February 26, 2015

Rukmini Bhaya Nair on what's changed for the Indian neta.

Opinion: AAP and its Anarchy

Rukmini Bhaya Nair | Tuesday February 17, 2015

How will it balance anarchy with governance, asks Rukmini Bhaya Nair.

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