Sugata Mitra and India's New "Schools in the Cloud"
People use the cloud for a lot of different things, storing music, editing documents, and sharing photos. $1 Million Ted Prize Winner Sugata Mitra aims to change education in India. After giving his talk last year at a Ted Conference (the video is embedded below), he won $1 million dollars …
Indian Supreme Court Upholds Homophobic Laws
Indian culture stigmatizes homosexuality in every way. Bollywood rarely, if ever, shows gay couples outside of making fun of it. Dostana, a movie premised on two men pretending to be gay, re-entrenches most of the stereotypical “gay qualities.” However, you would think that the government of the largest democracy in the world would …
