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...world's best universities know the Indian passion for education is a potential goldmine and have been lobbying New Delhi to open up the domestic market for years. True, there will always be people who want to study overseas no matter what, people like Anupriya Diwan, 22, who earned an undergraduate degree in interior design at an Indian college and is now keen to study design in the U.S. "The point is exposure," says Diwan, who was at the exhibition last week to compare European colleges to her U.S. choices. "Friends who have come back have different thought processes...
...Indian students are also heading to universities in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The international market for students has become a lot more competitive recently, a trend visible at an exhibition of European universities in New Delhi last week. Potential students flocked to the show, grilling exhibitors from Europe's traditional powers, such as France and Germany, but also eastern upstarts such as Hungary and Lithuania. The number of European universities offering courses in English has risen dramatically over the past few years, making them more attractive to Indian students. "The Europeans are welcoming Asian students," says Nidhi Mahajan...
...University of Limerick booth, Nidhi Kapur, a middle-class mother from Delhi, sat looking over courses for her 17-year-old son Kartavya. The gap between India's top schools and the next rank of universities is huge, she explained. For a B- or C-grade student like her son, "you still want a good, solid, branded university, but the options are limited in India," despite the fact that "every family would spend anything it can for education. We're happy to give up comfortable living if it means our children will go to a good school...
...Proliferating Primates Re "Way too Much Monkey Business" [Nov. 13], on the overpopulation of rhesus macaques in Delhi: The problem reflects the sad state of Indian society today. Indians see only the immediate trouble and its quick fix. In its quest for a high per capita income, the society is moving forward in much the same way it handled the monkey issue-creating problems, analyzing those problems in retrospect, critiquing the possible solutions and finally learning to coexist with the problem. Then some entrepreneur sees a business opportunity: Let's bring in bigger monkeys to solve the problem...
...house for tea. As part of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting, which opened in India a few days ago, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked a hundred or so delegates to tea on the lawn of his residence Sunday evening. Guests were bused to the PM's New Delhi house and escorted along a path beneath trees that teamed with chirping Indian Mynah birds and the occasional peacock to a meeting room where the softly spoken Singh gave a short formal address. India's economy has experienced 8% annual growth for the past few years but it was vital...