Mayank Shekhar: Staring at demographic disaster
(WorldNews India)

Shashi Tharoor narrates this telling incident where an American interviewer once asked the Infosys founder N Narayana Murthy (NRN) about his son`s future plans. NRN said he hoped his son would make it to the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). What about Harvard? Well, if he didn`t go to IIT, there`s always Harvard - the safety net, as it were, NRN said. Which numerically speaking of course makes sense, given that acceptance rate in the IITs was less than a per cent, while you stood an 8-11 per cent chance of making it to Harvard instead - and perhaps picking up a Nobel some day, if not dropping out to rule the world! Created by Biswa Kalyan Rath, Laakhon Mein Ek is a uniformly dark,...