“I would like to remind the Central government that the Dravidian movement has a long history of spearheading struggles against (the) imposition of Hindi… I sternly urge the Centre not to sow the seeds for the emergence of third generation, anti-Hindi imposition protests through… pushing India into becoming Hindia.”
M.K. Stalin, DMK chief and leader of the Opposition in Tamil Nadu, warning the BJP and prime minister Narendra Modi against imposing Hindi in national institutions (India Today, May 8)
“It is a motivated campaign by people who are trying to find different ways to say something about it. Privacy is a much bigger issue.”
Nandan Nilekani, former chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India, on the Aadhaar card endangering public privacy (Business Standard, May 13)
“Providing parents information on school quality is a key plank of education policy in most educationally advanced countries. However, for the CBSE (or any board) to itself grade schools is a cumbersome and inefficient way of providing information. Other countries simply publish annual rankings of schools based on the actual board exam marks of students.”
Geeta Gandhi Kingdon, professor of education economics at University of London (Times of India, May 30)
“Information technology has been the industry that hired the Indian educated middle class, but now the easy jobs are gone… Today, an engineer is not a specialist, especially a rookie with only two to three years of experience. So my advice is: go do a postgraduate degree and then go for a job. ”
T.V. Mohandas Pai, chairman of Manipal Global Education, on massive layoffs forecast by the Indian IT industry this year (Outlook, May 29)
“Leadership in women has to be OK. Emotion in men has to be OK.”
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, on bucking gender stereotypes in the workplace (Time, May 29)