Tagged: Lord Macaulay

“Our English schools are flourishing wonderfully…”

A thought-provoking excerpt for the week (emphasia added): Our English schools are flourishing wonderfully. We find it difficult, indeed, in some places impossible, to provide instruction for all who want it. At the single...

Clearing the dust off Macaulay’s “famous quote”

Many of you must have come across this “famous quote” of Macaulay in which he appears to be praising the wealth, cultural and spiritual heritage of India: I have travelled across the length and...

The importance of accurate referencing

One thing that I try to be particular about is to find at least one cross-reference to something that I am referring to either as a fact or as a “quote”. This often means...