Value outlasts success: Einstein’s message for students in an exam-obsessed world

Success is fleeting when it becomes identity, believed Albert Einstein (AI generated image) Every generation invents its own scoreboard. Ours prefers the numerical kind. Percentiles decide streams, cut-offs decide colleges, packages decide credibility. Even curiosity is quietly trained to ask a transactional question first: Will this be evaluated?In such an economy of numbers, a line…

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Subhi Gupta: Battling medical store’s eye-drop blunder, depression: How UP’s chess whizz Shubhi Gupta became India Girls’ No. 1 | Chess News

Shubhi Gupta (Special Arrangements) NEW DELHI: Imagine it is your first international chess tournament on your own. Your parents have burned a hole in their pockets to take you to the scenic country of Uzbekistan. There, you are supposed to play the toughest of opponents from across the globe. You reach the venue, and you…

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‘Built lasting bridges’: How Padma Shri Tomio Mizokami shaped India–Japan cultural ties | India News

Renowned Japanese scholar and linguist Professor Tomio Mizokami, Professor Emeritus at Osaka University, is widely regarded as one of the most influential cultural bridges between India and Japan, with a lifelong commitment to Indian languages, literature and education. His contribution was formally recognised in 2018, when he was conferred the Padma Shri, one of India’s…

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