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Howard Gardner: 'Individual learners are not all the same and they should not be treated as if they are.' Photo: Special Arrangement
Howard Gardner: 'Individual learners are not all the same and they should not be treated as if they are.' Photo: Special Arrangement

Teachers have to balance demands from various quarters: Howard Gardner

‘Parents should avoid positive and negative narcissism. The challenge is to watch your children very carefully, see what interests them, and find ways to help them.' »
ANWAR IBRAHIM: “The harassment was small compared to Gandhiji’s. I was badly assaulted, and that is a reprieve compared to those who were shot dead. So you always look at things positively.” Photo: Vivek Bendre

A Short Walk to Freedom

In India at the invitation of Rajmohan Gandhi as part of a pro democratic think thank initiative, Mr Ibrahim is grateful for support from this country and others and this is perhaps what led to his acquittal. »
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N.R. NARAYANA MURTHY: “As long as there is culpability in the corporate sector, certainly I think the corporate sector will have to answer questions.” Photo: K. Bhagya Prakash

‘Private sector must support scientific research too'

Education and research institutions must spend more time in interacting with the industry, says Infosys chairman emeritus N. R. Narayana Murthy. »
Bruce Cumings: “The media constantly mistake this regime for a one-man dictatorship. In fact an entire generation of leaders rose in tandem with Kim Jong-il…” Photo : Special Arrangment

The West's misconceptions about North Korea

A reasonably stable transition can be expected in North Korea, says Bruce Cumings of the University of Chicago »
DAVID MILIBAND: “…my experience is that other Europeans know that the European Union is much stronger for Britain playing a central role.” Photo: N. Sridharan

India is the success story of South Asia — that is a fact: David Miliband

"What I always say in Pakistan, very loudly, is that they have to deal with their own internal enemies, that the historic spectre that their enemy is their neighbour needs to be replaced by a recognition that their enemy is an internal one." »
Opinion: Must not allow the drumbeat of war against Iran to become an inevitability: David Miliband

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“If anything happens, individual participants should not be left alone to pay for the cost of treating injuries that directly relate to that research.”: Raju Kucherlapati. Photo: Special Arrangement
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Raising bioethical standards

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ROBERT KANIGEL: ‘In the case of Ramanujan, what I wrote was the first western biography.’ Photo: V. Ganesan
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‘I think some people really are a few steps beyond where the rest of us live’

Robert Kanigel is the author of The Man Who Knew Infinity (1991), the acclaimed biography of Srinivasa Ramanujan. Mr. Kanigel, a writer and journalist who has written several book... »
ABHISHEK SINGHVI: 'Judicial delay is a far bigger problem than the lack of an independent investigation and prosecution mechanism'. Photo: S.S. Kumar
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