Shailaja Neelakantan covers India for GlobalPost. Neelakantan has been reporting from India since 2002, and she is the South Asia correspondent for the Washington, DC-based Chronicle of Higher Education. Her articles have also appeared in Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, the Independent, Salon, Red Herring, Business 2.0 and Far Eastern Economic Review. She has degrees in politics and journalism from the University of Delhi and Columbia University in New York.
Manipal University was born in a developing country and focuses on students in other developing nations.
Indian School of Business, just 9 years old, is ranked #12 by the Financial Times.
A new breed of philanthropists is changing India's education system.
A successful program tackles and intractable problem.
An after-school program in industrial Delhi sets out to right the gender imbalance in Indian education.
Kidar Nath Bansal is no "ordinary man."
Pervez Hoodbhoy, a nuclear physicist and teacher, has seen just about everything.
How "old" technologies are helping scholars reinvent the New India.
India's bid for full Washington Accord membership, an elite honor, has been postponed again.
India's education minister says the country can't afford not to.
A young Indian university shows Yale the way.