I wonder what would have been the status if Aryabhatt had not invented “0”…probably scams would have stopped at 9…a single digit scam is so much easier to fathom than one with the “crazy” zeroes. I almost always lose count…but then my economics and mathematics  was always a weak point. My heart cries out to the section of students who somehow manage to cram and scrape through the Board Exams and celebrate the end of the dreaded draconian “board examination”. And when you get dragged into giving a re-test all over again it surely is a testing time. Some may even have disposed of their books, celebrating “good riddance” and frolicking around. Throw the “unwanted” as far as possible. How are they going to survive this ultimate “test” of not only their feeble knowledge, but also of their resolve and effort to take up the cudgels once more.

We have changed so many things, adapting and making them more relevant keeping with the times, but somehow in India we have kept the knowledge tightly closeted in the garb of “annual” examinations. The experiment with Continuous Evaluation was too radical for acceptance? Why should we not emphasise on learning and understanding; what we learn in context of our everyday life. Many School & College “dropouts” who went on to establish Large Corporations have proved their point time and again. I have always been abhorrent of this methodology of imparting knowledge. There are more than one thing which I understand better now when experienced practicing, which got lost in my attempt to cram the answer just for reproduction on the exam paper!!! Reproducing Pascal’s Law as his narrative definition was more important than trying to understand what Pascal actually meant. As an opportunity, this surely is a huge one for Modi. Imagine the “grateful” potential voters who like a mango tree would mature to bear fruits by the time he is fighting for this third term in Office (given the statistical percentages of India’s Youth brigade), to take the bull of examination by its horn and break the Education System…making it more potent and viable. It would be killing two birds with one stone, the perpetrators of this Examination Paper Leak Industry would be crushed once and for all, and also the youth who have to take on the World in the near future, would turn out to be more “knowledgeable”, it is just a mann ki baat…