MIT OpenCourseWare: I'm invested

About This

This website was launched and is maintained by an early-career avid academic. The idea lay dormant for a while, but in a prolonged wait for elusive career stability, finally took this shape in May 2009. At the present time, human resources on this project are intentionally limited. The only expansion foreseen is in membership and the user base.

This project is dedicated to the teachers across the world who inspired me through my formal education. I often reflect on the vast masses who are (were) not lucky to have (had) teachers of that kind. And what a lasting difference it makes! It is, in fact, quite difficult to communicate with people who have had less fortunate learning experiences. Part of the hope is that wider access to the endangered minority of dedicated teachers will hence help ease general academic communication.

Before you give your welcome and valued opinion on the aesthetics, know this. The site design reflects the personality of the site administrator: largely dull gray with a dash of warm, bright, colour; the logo mirrors his ethic: mostly square, rigid rules, with just a hint of bends. Though the colour is “warm and bright” to some eyes, it is probably worth adding that this particular colour or one very close to it is associated with Hindu spirituality and ascetic values. You might also trace a hint of a muted obeisance to the National Geographic Society for a lifetime of inspiration.

For those curious, the unorthodox spelling for ‘knowledge’ in the name and URI (of-course necessitated by the alphanumerical crowding out in cyber real estate) follows the unwritten Bollywood spelling convention for transliterating Hindi words to the Roman alphabet. That is, if there was a Hindi word pronounced exactly as ‘knowledge’ is in English, on the movie poster and in the DVD credits, it would be transliterated as ‘naulej’. Though it involves a risk, I know hispanophones who ever dabbled in English will love this!

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