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Silent minister their vote. It is appalling that citizens
THE KARNATAKA education news are routinely ahead in queues for
story ‘Mess and messier’ (EW May) government freebies or discounted
is disturbing to say the least. It is consumer products, but drag their
a shame that young students and feet when it’s time to exercise their
parents were put through so much franchise.
agony because some incompetent It is also shameful that most of
college lecturer decided to include them are first time or working-class
out-of-syllabus questions in the all- voters most likely to be impacted by
important CET exam. government policies. We urgently
It is the duty of Karnataka’s edu- need a law making voting mandatory
cation minister, who mysteriously for all adults without exception.
became incommunicado during the Tanya Sharma via E-MAIL
controversy, to urgently review the
process of setting question papers for
important competitive exams. Friendly advice
MAY 2024 Dhruva Gowda I AM A regular reader of your maga-
MYSURU zine. Of all the sections on offer, the
People and Young Achievers columns
Welcome guard change draw my interest most. However, the
CONGRATULATIONS FOR publish- Practise sustainable living format in which they are presented is
ing the comprehensive EW India IN THE Teacher-2-Teacher essay disappointing.
Higher Education Rankings 2024- ‘Urgent! Integrate alt energy in I request you to consider rework-
25 (EW May) ranking universities K-12 education’ (EW May), Tanya ing the format of these sections
across a wide range of parameters of Singhal has rightly highlighted the which sometimes end abruptly
higher education excellence. urgent need to introduce alternative presumably because of space con-
I am also delighted to learn that energy generation as a core subject straint. But without space, you can’t
your esteemed magazine has part- in school curricula. It’s important do justice to the inspirational people
nered with a new Bengaluru-based for all children to learn about — and you write about.
field research company led by a promote and practise — sustainable I hope you will take my friendly
highly qualified woman professional living. advice seriously.
to conduct the market research. In this era of escalating carbon Devesh M. via E-MAIL
I hope this change of guard will footprint and devastating impact of
result in less predictability in the climate change, integrating sustain-
top-ranked schools league tables ability concepts into school cur- Lot in a name
of the mammoth EW India School riculums is critical to catching ’em I HAVE observed a glaring incon-
Rankings due later this year. young. I totally agree with Singhal sistency in your magazine and as a
Daya Singh that hands-on projects and experi- permanent resident of the garden
JAIPUR ments can bring sustainable living city, I am uncomfortable with it. In
concepts to life. Students should be some pages, you choose to go with
encouraged to experience tangible ‘Bengaluru’ and in others, you prefer
Ranking confirmation benefits of sustainable living, inspir- ‘Bangalore’. For cities like Chennai
IN YOUR recently published EW ing them to adopt green solutions for or Mumbai which have also under-
India Higher Education Rankings the betterment of their communities gone name changes, you don’t seem
2024-25 (EW May), I was pleased and society. to have a problem at all, then why
to see that Amity University, Noida Chaitra V. Bengaluru?
is ranked India’s #1 private multi- HYDERABAD Please note that Bangalore was of-
disciplinary university. ficially renamed Bengaluru a decade
My daughter, a graduate of Amity, ago. When much offence is taken for
confirms that she is more than satis- Mandatory voting call personal names spelt or pronounced
fied with the curriculum, pedagogy, YOUR EDITORIAL ‘Elections must incorrectly, why ignore cities? After
research focus, industry connect and reflect the will of all people’ (EW all, Bengaluru is my home, an emo-
placements of the university. May) has drawn attention to the tion.
Payal Jain disturbing phenomenon that one- Deepika Rai
NEW DELHI third of eligible voters don’t cast BENGALURU

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