Missing the mother tongue
Posted on Jul 22nd, 2018 in Articles
Roopinder Singh The tussle between teaching school children in their mother tongue or the English language is an old one. It is hard to remember that there was a time when all learning was in the mother tongue, or a language closely related to it. Education was long treated as a privilege and thus reserved for the elite. Others had …
Free software gets a $5-billion fine
Posted on Jul 21st, 2018 in Information Tech
India has the most users for Google, Microsoft products and social media platforms. Our regulators have the clout to ensure better service to Indians, but they have not been as aggressive as EU in ensuring consumer protection. Roopinder Singh More than 77 per cent of the world’s smartphones run on various versions of the Android operating system, and this alone …