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Statesman News Service

‘Pedagogy must be flexible’

In an exclusive interaction with Ritwik Mukherjee of The Statesman, Srikrishna G Kulkarni, chairperson, Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC), outlines how the first national institute for post graduate studies and research in management, has evolved and emerged as an international centre of excellence in all facets of management education.

Nuanced approach

Finance Minister Nirmala Sithara- man's announcement that India aims to reduce its fiscal deficit to 5.1 per cent of GDP in 2024-25 sends a strong signal to investors.

Game-changer

The promise of AI is not merely about job displacement and creation but as a potential game- changer in public services.

Swamiji’s relevance

The 19th century Bengal Renaissance had been the force behind the influx of Western rationality and thought in India. Fed up with the superstition accumulated over the ages, educated Indians decided to do away completely with ‘religion‘. It is now fashionable to speak of ‘secular education‘ – where the word ‘secular‘ is interpreted to mean devoid of any particular religious beliefs whatsoever. But this apparently ‘neutral‘ stand has often sucked out the life-giving components from culture and education. In the attempt to remove the weeds from a plant, the very plant has been cut down, as it were