Day-before-yesterday on CNN-IBN, http://ibnlive.in.com/, perhaps the most popular and most powerful Indian English TV news channel, I saw a message on the ticker asking for suggestions to improve education in India from http://thinkindia.in.com/. The About us page, http://thinkindia.in.com/about-us/, states "The Think India Foundation is a brand new initiative of Network 18. The Foundation will act as a media-active think tank engaged in the task of public policy advocacy. It will be our objective to adhere to, and propagate, the principles of fiscal conservatism, regulated free markets and social liberalism, which are the hallmarks of most successful economies and advanced societies. The main objective of Think India Foundation is to influence public policy through thoughtful advocacy, independent research, public speaking engagements and events, and regular interactions with policy-makers, business and social entrepreneurs, using partnerships with multiple media (print, TV, online, social and blogs) to achieve these goals."
I think Network 18 owns the CNN-IBN TV channel and so it has powerful media connections.
I have given below the main content (slightly edited to make it suitable for a blog post) of the two mails I sent to them (on Dec. 14th and Dec. 15th 2013).
-------- First mail ------------------
I have been making fair amount of effort over the past two years or so to share my views on how to improve the practice of software development in Indian Computer Science and Information Technology academia.
You may want to view my preprint paper (not yet published in a peer reviewed publication) titled, Improve the Practice of Software Development in India by Having a Software Development Career Track in Indian CS & IT Academia, http://arxiv.org/pdf/1202.1715.
You may also want to view my recent blog post having details of a mail exchange between me and Mr. Phil Baty of Times Higher Education Rankings which publishes The World University Rankings (response from Mr. Baty is a very short one). The post is titled, Suggestion of Separate University Rankings for Research Excellence and Teaching Excellence, https://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2013/12/suggestion-of-separate-university.html.
If you would like to know more about my views on Indian CS & IT academia - problems, suggestions for improvement and some other material - you may please visit my blog, https://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/p/table-of-contents.html.
--------- Second Mail -----------------------------------------------------------------
I forgot to mention in my mail of yesterday that Google search for the following terms (on my computer):
- poor software development skills Indian Computer Science graduates
- poor software development skills Indian CS graduates
- poor software development skills Computer Science graduates
- poor software development skills CS graduates
- improve software development skills Indian Computer Science graduates
- improve software development skills Indian CS graduates
- improve programming skills Indian CS graduates
gives my paper, Improve the Practice of Software Development in India by Having a Software Development Career Track in Indian CS & IT Academia, http://arxiv.org/pdf/1202.1715, as the first non-advertisement result.
In addition the same paper comes up within the first ten results in Google Search for the terms:
- poor programming skills Indian Computer Science graduates
- poor programming skills Indian CS graduates
- poor programming skills CS graduates
- improve programming skills Indian Computer Science graduates
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