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Seeking solace, I have traveled through many a gateways of time. I once spotted a lonely man, a temporal figure trudging the vast ruins of human psyche...

I wonder where was it that he had headed! Was it to the portal of education seeking a brighter morrow... or was it that he had merely drifted from one realm of Baudelaire into yet another abyss of Faustian Dilemma.

Was it the arch of knowledge or a mere mirage of amorphous light that it passed under..... Was it, I wonder, the one that humans call portal of education.

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The education system in entire U.A.E. stinks! The kids have no zeal, curiosity, and enthusiasm to be informed about the world that unfolds myriads of its colours each day. I am tempted to blame the hollowed institutions of learning in this part of the world… as I would blame the society and the parents! Most that is taught in the institutes of higher learning is what really should have been imparted to them at secondary level. There is no intellectual discourse, no introspection; retrospectives are conspicuous by its absence.

Dilution of all intellectual needs amongst the younger generations is a disturbing trend that this young promising nation will have to contend with. It is this lot of intellectually challenged generation-next that will, sooner or later, be weaving the fabric called society, polity, and commerce. A frightening thought!

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Most Indian expatriate kids, in Dubai, seem to be incompatible with mainland India’s education system and professional media scenario.

The tragedy is that these wonderful kids are no less intellectually smart than the ones in the Indian sub-continent. Yet, a strange malady of consumerism and self-centrism dogs them.

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I wonder what is it about Dubai that we all love to hate and hate to love... despite having great potential to become a true melting pot of all intellect, cultures, and ideologues, Dubai has strangely and doggedly retained tactility of an alien and a close-mouth society. Here, we are rootless individuals fending for ourselves and everybody else is a competitor. It’s a dog eat dog world here!

This land, it seems, is caught in the twilight zone… between desire to rapidly modernise itself in order to compete with the affluent western nations and yet some how retain its cultural past and once dearly held traditions!