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THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MAGAZINE
(Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. Parth Shah, Jeroninio W ay back in 2004 when this pioneer education news maga-
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N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto,
Krishan Khanna, Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala,
zine, promoted in 1999 with the mission to arouse public
Kirit Mehta, Balkishan Sharma (Mumbai); Dr.
Ramdas Pai (Manipal); Dr. Geeta Kingdon
to develop India’s abundant and high-potential human
Almeida, Premchand Palety (Delhi); Dr. Kannan opinion to exert pressure on the ignorant establishment
Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra Subba (Kurseong); capital, was in its infancy, we featured a cover titled ‘Dirty dozen corrupt
Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. Achyuta Samanta practices destroying Indian education’. Seventeen years later following a rising
(Bhubaneswar); Shyama Thakore (London)
number of anecdotal reports of multiplying rackets and rip-offs in the educa-
EDITOR tion sector, your editors were compelled to revisit this issue.
Dilip Thakore And lo and behold, the dozen corrupt practices that were poisoning the
MANAGING EDITOR education system in yester-years are flourishing unchecked. Worse, after en-
Summiya Yasmeen actment of well-intentioned legislation such as the landmark Right of Children
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR to Free & Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009, new rackets have been
Sundar Anand devised with a larger number of parasites nibbling at roots of the system. It’s a
Paromita Sengupta, Reshma Ravishanker, Gopi telling commentary on the depth of the moral rot that has permeated post-
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