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Even as the national capital continues to be battered by heavy rains year after year, long-term efforts to chart out a drainage plan remain too little, too late.

How was the past fortnight for you? The answer would depend on where you were. It would be the same if you were in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab or the eastern suburbs of Delhi: stuck in floods. If you weren’t in these places, like me, your answer would probably be: stuck to the screen, watching videos of the floods. The footage was worse than that from the Uttarakhand floods of 2013; the Himalayan rivers seemed angrier and heavier with mud.
That anger was shared by almost everyone else, and for good reason. No lessons seem to have been learnt in the …

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Passing one of the toughest exams in the world to get into an IIT is no longer enough.
While the answer is a resounding yes for fields like medicine and law, there are many new fields where a college degree isn’t necessary or even relevant.