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Populist Governments ; The ill fate of India’s Education. In a recent Job opening by Indian Railways more than 28 Million people applied for 90,000 jobs of Grade C which includes jobs like Gangman, Repairsman, Lineman and Engine Driver. Most applicants here are Graduates or even post Graduates. If anything this event is hallmark of low reliability of Letter Grades and Paper Degrees; universities across India are churning. So let’s look at this problem from it’s inception. Post Independence policy In 1947 when India gained Independence from the British it’s literacy rate was a partly 12%. This has since shot up to 74% in 2011. This phenomenal growth has come at a cost of quality of education. Rapid increase in schools and pupils through the compulsory education policy of the government means that people were educated to flaunt literacy rate figures each election and wether they actually received any education or become capable of trade or skill of any kind. I

Now that you know how an interferometer works it’s obvious your next question would be to know how sensitive are they ? Here I take the second question first and then move on to answer how sure are we that we have detected a Gravitational Wave. In case you are here for the first time or have no clue about interferometers or Gravitational wave astronomy you might want to read my previous article first. How Do the LIGO Detectors Work? How are Gravitational Waves Detected? What you see above are the instruments that created history on 14 September 2015. In a Galaxy far far away, Billion… medium.com A bit of History The original Michelson Morley experiment. You can see the mirrors and beam-splitters mounted a the top. The box in the bottom is filled with a pool of Mercury. [Image Courtesy:By Case Western Reserve University —  http://www.cellularuniverse.org/AA2MM_Aether.htm , Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48697725] Once Maxwell