There’s a question that history students get asked at almost every family gathering. “So what will you do with history?” The uncle who asks it usually has a smirk on his face. And the student, more often than not, doesn’t have a sharp enough answer ready. Here’s the answer they should give: “I’ll understand how […]
Every year, thousands of students pick English Literature almost by default. Science didn’t work out. Commerce felt dry. So English it is. And then somewhere in the second semester, sitting in a class discussing Partition literature or an Adrienne Rich poem, something clicks. This wasn’t the backup plan. This was actually the right call. That’s […]
Every year around this time, lakhs of students across India sit down to write the Common University Entrance Test (CUET), now the main gateway to many undergraduate programmes. But for students enrolled with the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), the timeline looks very different. Their board exams often run later, pushing their results beyond […]