6k aspirants from 13 nations take first INDSAT test

nNEW DELHI: Around six thousand candidates from 13 countries on Wednesday took the first-ever INDSAT test that will be used by Indian institutions to grant them scholarships and admissions.

“The first-ever INDSAT test was held in 13 countries including Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Ethiopia. It was an online test conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA),” said a senior government official, adding that HRD ministry body EDCIL was steering the effort. “Candidates who score the required marks would be short-listed... ,” said the official.

EXPERIENCE YOUR CITY LIKE NEVER BEFORE giant neem tree branches bend down on to the three whitewashed tombs, each draped with a colourful chadar. The graves are said to be of a Sufi mystic and his disciples; their identities is impossible to determine. In that, these graves are similar to many other resting places of forgotten mystics that litter the city. Along central Delhi’s roadsides, a number of such mounds are memorials to revered figures whose names have been lost to history. Of course, the roads came centuries after the graves, which must have once enjoyed the solitude that is still the privilege of these three.

The park is also home to a little ruin. Who built it? And why? And when? There’s no plaque around to offer even a hint.

The lack of information about the landmarks in this park is truly frustrating. But think of it like this—why do we need to strip the city of all its mysteries, to decode all its secrets, and break everything about it into chunks of information, to make it guidebook worthy? In a time when Google can show results even about your most introvert neighbour, it comes as a relief to hang about in a place like this one, that has managed to remain so secretive. It is tucked in Delhi’s heart, yet hidden from view. It is supremely serene and yet crudely infiltrated by the city sounds. It is off the beaten track and yet just beside a busy road.

Come here on an afternoon like this one.