Jaipur: Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma said Thursday writers and authors should create literature that guides and inspires the young.Speaking at the inaugural session of the five-day Jaipur Literature Festival, Sharma said, “I want to say to writers that what you write should be meaningful and should guide the new generation. You should write literature…

Jaipur: Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai returned to the Jaipur Literature Festival Thursday after more than a decade away and said race becomes unavoidable in the United States, framing “every single aspect of life” there.“As soon as you go to the United States, life becomes all about race,” Desai said, responding to a question about…

Jaipur: Students preparing for Biology board exam for Class 12 must prioritise topics according to the difficulty level and weightage to make exam preparation easier, suggested teachers from a city school.Fatima Bhati, a biology teacher at Cambridge Court High School, said that students must first understand the marking scheme and the exam pattern well to…

Jaipur: Shiksha Sharma, a Class 12 student at Cambridge Court High School, says biology can be the “most scoring” subject, provided a strategic approach is followed in its study.“It is important to do smart work rather than only hard work. I anaylse the unit-wise and chapter-wise weightage and marking scheme, then allocate study time by…

Jaipur: India’s fiscal federalism, the system that governs how resources are shared between the Union and states, is facing challenges.At a JLF session Thursday on their book, ‘A Sixth of Humanity: Independent India’s Development Odyssey’, former chief economic advisor Arvind Subramanian and academic Devesh Kapur said that the country’s federal unity is being strained by…