Muthoot to Millets – My Experience With the Modern Day Messiahs
I entered the Yeshwantpur railway station to catch my train to Orissa. Tens of people were looking at the digital board to see their train timings and platform number. But,...
Education for All: The Soviet Experience – Part I
In July 2020, the Government of India introduced the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. The NEP is a tool to privatise and saffronise education as elaborated in the previous articles....
30 Years of Babri Demolition: Democracy on Deathbed
“In the early 90s, two locks were opened: one of the Babri Masjid and the other of the market [economic liberalization]. When they opened those two locks, they unleashed two...
Global Investors’ Meet 2022 – Behind the Scenes
A group of concerned students and youth from All India Students’ Association, Karnataka, planned a peaceful demonstration outside the Global Investors’ Meet (GIM), Bangalore in November to raise concerns regarding...
Mental Health Crisis Needs Radical Intervention – Not Piecemeal Makeovers
(Trigger Warning: Mention of Suicide, Self-Harm) In December 2021, the Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore) removed ceiling fans from their hostels, in response to rise in student suicides. The irony...
Adventures in “corporate social responsibility”: A look at some of the biggest foreign corporations who joined the GIM 2022
Microsoft: Bought gold from a legal company in Brazil. This legal company however relies on illegal gold miners who have collectively destroyed huge tracts of the Amazon rain forest (one...
National Exclusion Policy: Road to Privatization
NDA government introduced the National Education Policy two years ago, generally called NEP 2020. However, the root of NEP can be traced back to around the period of implementation of...
The Saffron Way to Exclusion – National Education Policy 2020
“60-70 percent of our demands have been accommodated in some form or the other.” - KG Suresh, spokesperson of Bharatiya Shikshan Mandal (BSM) For the uninitiated, the BSM is one...