Joshimath – How Neoliberal Capitalism Destroyed An Entire City
Joshimath is a city in Uttarakhand, located at the foot of the Himalayas. It is located at Zone V as per India’s seismic zonation scheme, which makes it geologically vulnerable,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...