In Media: Articles, Opinion, Comments, & News Creator

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Podcast | Webinar | Interviews

• How does a paper leak happen? In Focus Podcast: Host G. Sampath. [YouTube] The Hindu: July 06, 2026.

• Indian Society & High-Stakes Exams: Restoring Trust through Fair, Transparent, & Micro-Defined SoPs. A Webinar: June 10, 2026.

• Not just NEET, NTA needs revamp (YouTube): The Hindu Webinar. May 23, 2026.

• On NCR's Air Pollution (Interview). Eco N Energy Talk with Hridayesh Joshi, Dec 24, 2025.

• AI can further reform the admission process in IITs (Interview) CXO TV. Dec. 13, 2019.

• This professor's campaign reformed the opaque IIT admissions (Interview). Scroll-In. Aug. 10, 2018.

• Know Your Rights (Interview). The Scholars' Avenue. IIT Kharagpur. Mar 17, 2010.

Articles | Explained | Op-Eds | Analyses

• What can be done to curb ‘paper leaks’ and ensure institutional accountability? Hindu: Text & Context, August 05, 2026.

• Thousands of government schools shut: The one scenario where this could be a good thing: Expert Explains. Indian Express: August 04, 2026.

• Will the new education minister resolve the CBSE-OSM crisis? . Hindu Education, July 28, 2026.

• What can be done to address the CBSE evaluation controversy? Hindu Text & Context, July 28, 2026.

• CBSE-OSM Crisis: From Assurances to Supreme Court's 'Frustrated Young Minds': Who will Close the Gap?. Times of India Voices, July 27, 2026.

• Why NTA charges students to challenge its answer key, when IITs and UPSC don’t? Expert Explains. Indian Express: July 19, 2026.

• Why India’s engineering education needs a reset in the AI era? Expert Explains. Indian Express: July 08, 2026.

• CBSE’s supplementary examination and the promise of no injustice. HinduText & Context (Edu.), July 09, 2026.

• What If every CBSE-OSM answer script had been opened?. The Hindu Education, June 26, 2026.

• [NEET: Beyond paper leaks, the real vulnerabilities lie elsewhere: Online: June 25, 2026] [Do unprecedented security measures address NEET's real vulnerabilities? Text & Context: June 29, 2026]. The Hindu, June 25-29, 2026

• Coempt defends OSM rollout, but transparency concerns remain. The Hindu Education, June 19, 2026.

• The unfinished promise of transparency in CBSE’s digital evaluation system. The Hindu Edu.: June 10, 2026.

• Resolving the CBSE OSM crisis through free disclosure, verification, and re-rvaluation of answer scripts. Times of India Voices, June 08, 2026.

• How proactive, fee-n-portal free disclosure of answer scripts can still prevent the CBSE OSM crisis? The Hindu Edu.: June 05, 2026.

• Can CBSE’s marking system be reformed for transparency and credibility? The Hindu Edu., June 03, 2026.

• CBSE’s OSM Crisis: Building a trusted digital evaluation system. Pioneer, June 02, 2026.

• What is normalisation of scores, and why it works in JEE but might not in NEET? Expert Explains Indian Express, May 26, 2026.

• Why Computer-Based Testing may not solve NEET’s paper leak problem? Expert Explains Indian Express, May 21, 2026.

• NEET goes for CBT: Genuine reform or panic-driven damage control? Hindu Education Opinion, May 19, 2026.

• Not so NEET after all. Technology, Institutions, and Top Brains failed again. Pioneer Agenda, May 17, 2026.

• AI-enabled oversight layer for continuous electoral roll monitoring. Hindu: May 11, 2026.

• The quick answers trap: Is Genetic AI helping students or adding to stress? Expert Explains. Indian Express: May 04, 2026.

• AAP’s shift: From common man roots to elite drift Pioneer Analysis, April 30, 2026.

• Is India’s electoral system losing its citizen focus? Pioneer Analysis, April 04, 2026.

• As publishing goes open access, does ONOS still deliver value for public money? Hindu Education: Feb 18, 2026.

• Fixing the weakest link: AI-driven complaint handling and UGC equity regulations. Hindu Education, Feb 02, 2026.

• Breaking Maharashtra’s patriarchal order. Pioneer Opinion, Feb 02, 2026.

• Why SIR verification needs to be completely digitised. Hindu: Jan 20, 2026. IMPACT: UP voters may get to skip SIR hearings, send representatives instead: Hindu: Jan 23, 2026.

• Nero Redux: ECI fiddled while anxiety loomed over voters. The Wire: Jan 13, 2026.

• Severe AQI and my right to breathe. Pioneer: Jan 04, 2026.

• NCR’s air crisis: Pollution prevention must replace pollute-and-clean. Times of India Voices, Dec 29, 2025.

• Delhi smogged: Yet another winter of toxic denial. Pioneer: Dec 22, 2025.

• Why the SIR needs to be completely digitised. Hindu: Dec 03, 2025.

• The lab-field disconnect in the capital’s pollution crisis. Mongabay India, Feature Story: Dec 01, 2025.

• Flawed Rolls, Non-Searchable Records, Outdated SOPs, Lack of BLO Training Make an SIR Crisis. The Wire: Nov 27, 2025.

• SIR Experiences: We Can't Find Our Names in the 2002-03 Voter Rolls | with Siraj Hussain. The Wire: Nov 21, 2025.

• Who is responsible for double votes? Tech-driven SIR 2.0 for electoral integrity. Pioneer: Nov 06, 2025.

• A nationwide SIR: the need to check double entries in the electoral list. Hindu: Nov 05, 2025.

• Electoral roll revamp: the case for digital transformation. Hindu: Oct 22, 2025.

• Twenty years after SIR, India still awaits electoral roll integrity. Pioneer: Oct 16, 2025.

• How to safeguard India’s digital economy. Hindu: Oct 03, 2025.

• Cyber frauds threaten India’s digital economy: bridging institutional gaps and policing. Pioneer: Sep 15, 2025.

• How Sholay became director Ramesh Sippy’s boldest leap in technology and marketing . Hindu Entertainment/Movies: August 29, 2025.

• Sholay @ 50: A Cinematic Technological Marvel . Pioneer: August 17, 2025.

• AI 171 crash: Time to rework air safety protocols . Pioneer Technology, August 25, 2025.

• Spare Our Samosa (SoS): An Ode to the Triangular Snack Dipped in Conversation . Pioneer Opinion, August 03, 2025.

• What we must do to combat ragging in our colleges. Indian Express Opinion, February 23, 2025.

• Vulnerable students and India’s need for an inclusive academic system. Hindu Op-Ed, February 17, 2025.

• ONOS: A game-changer with challenges in transforming global research access. Times of India Opinion, Dec 29, 2024.

• Gender sensitization: Balancing inclusivity and readiness in institutions. Times of India Opinion, Dec 04, 2024.

• Quality or deception? Gaming the university ranking system. Times of India Opinion, November 26, 2024.

• University rankings and academic metrics that raise eyebrows. Hindu Opinion, November 03, 2024.

• Decoding SC judgment: NEET skeletons tumble, unanswered questions persist. Times of India Opinion, August 12, 2024.

• Pen'n'paper just won't pass. Economic Times Opinion, June 27, 2024.

• Preventing another NEET fiasco. Hindu Op-Ed, June 26, 2024.

• Behind the NEET 2024 fiasco: Move from ‘select few’ to ‘appease all'. Indian Express, June 15, 2024.

• Tackling'left-behind syndrome: Student suicides cannot be addressed without young people's isolation. Indian Express, Sep 12, 2023.

• Student suicides: Despite complaint mechanisms in place in HEIs, many suffer in silence. Indian Express, Mar 16, 2023.

In Media: Comments / Opinion

• PM leak-law vow taken with a pinch of salt as experts question fresh exam bill. Telegraph: July 26, 2026.

• Anxious wait for revised marks as CBSE re-evaluation results face delays. Telegraph: June 24, 2026.

• CBSE: Less than 10% students applied for re-evaluation amid OSM controversy. Telegraph: June 09, 2026.

• JEE Adv data breach claims 'misleading', says IIT Roorkee, admits 'minor' glitch. Telegraph: June 06, 2026.

• CBSE data security under scanner after hacker claims access to answer sheets. Telegraph: June 01, 2026.

• Another NAT exam CUET - UG hit by technical snag. Telegraph: May 31, 2026.

• CUET-UG candidates climb seven floors, take exams in sweltering Delhi heatwave. Telegraph: May 24, 2026.

• NEET paper leak revives debate on Class 12-based medical admissions. Telegraph: May 17, 2026.

• NEET 2026 Canceled: Suspense on future of 23 lakh medical exam candidates. Telegraph: May 13, 2026.

• PhD backlog in IITs ‘bares systemic malady’: Academics flag output-centric policy. Telegraph: January 31, 2026.

• UGC proposes mandatory mental health centres and helplines across HEIs. Telegraph: January 19, 2026.

• Decades on, IIIT students face campus blues. Telegraph: Dec 31, 2025.

• Government eyes education funding reins under new regulatory bill. Telegraph: Dec 16, 2025.

• Mandatory publications, no interviews: AICTE unveils first-ever doctoral guidelines for Engineering and Tech. Hindu: September 30, 2025.

• Textbook case: BTech cart before horse in government’s vernacular-medium engineering push. Telegraph: August 17, 2025.

• Vice-chancellor of Lucknow University, Alok Kumar Rai to head IIM-C after President's approval. Telegraph: July 15, 2025.

• (Retracted) paper tigers undercut rankings: In India’s top 100, but lagging on global rankings. Telegraph: July 14, 2025.

• No complaint without affidavit, seeks stamp-paper grievances. Telegraph: February 21, 2025.

• NCERT withholds syllabus, students in the dark over new academic plans. Telegraph: Feb 13, 2025.

• UGC's teachers without PhD/NET qualification spark concern over quality. Telegraph: January 27, 2025.

• A stretched-out NEET-UG exam likely to be held in multiple stages . Telegraph: January 07, 2025.

• Seat sacrifice in ‘unpopular’ tech courses: Over 3,000 BTech, MTech vacancies in IITs, NITs. Telegraph: January 05, 2025.

• Government plans test centres to plug leaks: Academics suggest improving invigilation. Telegraph: November 03, 2024.

• On IIT students terminating their lives. Telegraph: October 24, 2024.

• Academics decry PhD credit denial: UGC's retirement clause 'unfair' to supervisors. Telegraph: September 12, 2024.

• Dip in research students in Indian top universities. Telegraph: September 03, 2024.

• NEET 2024 Judgment: On SOPs. Telegraph: August 04, 2024.

• Coaching industry minting money. Telegraph: August 04, 2024.

• In NEET UG 2024 results, small-town candidates rival toppers from coaching hubs. Telegraph: July 22, 2024.

• IIT Jodhpur introduces BTech in Hindi Medium. Telegraph: July 10, 2024.

• On Public Examination (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024. Telegraph: June 22, 2024.

• Questions of NTA's composition and competence. Telegraph: June 21, 2024.

• Center rolls out, One Nation One Student ID: Telegraph: Feb. 14, 2024.

• Coaching rein-in bid scepticism. Telegrpah: Feb. 05, 2024.

• Efforts to prevent suicides in IITs. Telegraph: April 19, 2023.

• IIT Madras scholar found dead. Telegraph: April 01, 2023.

• Grim data on suicides at IITs. Telegraph: March 17, 2023.

• IIT panel rules out caste bias. Telegraph: March 07, 2023.

• Post of professors most among teaching vacancies in C.U.s. Indian Express: Dec. 13, 2022.

• Academia split over UGC decision to award PhD without published papers. Telegraph: Nov 14, 2022.

• IIT plan diploma as a valve for stress: exit option after 2 years. Telegraph: Nov 01, 2022.

• Temple crops up inside university of Hyderabad: Telegraph: April 13, 2022.

• UGC backs education tech for online courses. Telegraph: April 03, 2022.

• Masters and PhD courses face vacancies in IITs. Telegraph: Feb. 10, 2022.

• Central Universities scrap common counselling for seat allotment. Telegraph: Jan. 25, 2022.

• JNU Academic Council approves centralized entrance test proposal. Telegraph: Jan. 13, 2022.

• External affairs ministry withdraws widely criticised int. webinar order. Telegraph: Feb. 26, 2021.

• IIT Guwahati makes permission mandatory for all webinars. Telegraph: Feb. 25, 2021.

• Academics raise quality questions, virtual varsity plan worry. Telegraph: Jan. 31, 2021.

• Central varsity teacher hiring frozen. Telegraph: Aug. 28, 2020.

• Humanities, social sciences to be included in GATE. Telegraph: July 27, 2020.

• IITs crowd-fund to bridge digital divide. Telegraph: July 25, 2020.

• Academic question UGC exam order. Telegraph: July 08, 2020.

• Pitfalls of JNU online classes. Telegraph: June 22, 2020.

• PMR Fellowship bar lowered. Telegraph: May 08, 2020.

• Seven IITs Times ranking. Telegraph: April 19, 2020.

• Varsities mull innovative online tests. Telegraph: April 18, 2020.

• IIT appeal to recruiters. Telegraph: April 06, 2020.

• Home-truth question for JNU VC: 2 official accommodations for the past 4y. Telegraph: Jan. 13, 2020.

• JNU springs email examination. Telegraph: Dec. 22, 2019.

… many more.

In Media : : News Creator

• How paper mills exploit India’s research system: JNU professor’s petition indicates scope of scam . Hindu: September 24, 2025.

• Former JNU Professor & whistleblower alleges theft of research. His efforts for redressal remain unaddressed. EdexLive: September 05, 2024.

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