Casteism in Indian Academia: The Institutional Murder of Prof. Samarvir Singh
Surya (TW: Mention of suicide)“How can they be so cruel? How can they just throw out someone who has been there for years? Do they know the struggles of a...
Is there Grandeur in this View of Life?
Anu In a new swath of so-called “rationalisations” aimed at “reducing burden on students” NCERT has omitted sections on ‘Evolution’ from the syllabus of class 10th Biology. The dropped topics...
Education in Karnataka
Gurumurthy Kasinathan, with editorial inputs from Sadaf Wani In 2009, India enacted the Right to Education Act(i), making education the fundamental right of every Indian child between the ages of...
Educating for a Hateful Tomorrow
“No one is born with hate in their heart. Hate is something that has been taught. It is not an innate survival skill that we need; It is a form...
Babasaheb Ambedkar on the Land Question
As the 132nd birthday of Dr. Ambedkar is approaching and the capital has witnessed historic resistance from the farmers recently, the agrarian crisis, land question, and related rights have resurfaced...
Red Salute to Comrades of Azim Premji University
Students of Azim Premji University staged a long and hard demonstration against the authoritative APU administration starting from the 13th of February that is continuing for more than 10 days. ...
Social Inclusion? Not Necessary
Right at the start of the new year 2023 when the techies of the IT capital of India were making new year resolutions about trips to 10 exotic locations or...
Foreign Universities in India: Who Makes the Profit?
“Actually, hard work is more powerful than Harvard." -Narendra Modi The above comment made by the prime minister in 2014 was a dig towards a Harvard educated political rival. In...
Education in mother language: The Soviet Experience – Part II
Learning to read and write is much easier if done in one's mother tongue and, of course, greatly facilitates the spread of literacy. In this field, the Soviet Union made...
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...