Recent decision of MHRD government of India to invite suggestions to rationalize curriculum in order to create balance between cognitive and analytical areas with other life skills including creativity and sports, is a welcome step. Whether it is public…
RTE – Policy Implementation and Policy Intervention | Abigail Shannon Kellogg
Why focus on them simultaneously? Through this article, I want to emphasize that civil society should focus on policy implementation and policy intervention…
Education in Bihar – Uttar Pradesh: Shocking or Illuminating?
Some months back a boy in his early twenties entered into my academic office to give me photo-copy of a paper. He seemed to be a little bit frightened…
Children sans Childhood: Rag Picking Children in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
I am used to wander around to look at people not very much welcome to the civil and elite society – the society excluding unwelcome cross sections is generally self-claimed. My observations are about those who are projected in a way not much acceptable to…
What is RSS agenda in Education?
In its recommendation to NCERT, Shiksha Sanskriti Uthan Nyas, an RSS affiliate asks for removal of English, Urdu and Arabic words, the thoughts of Rabindranath Tagore; extracts from painter M F Husain’s autobiography; references to the Mughal emperors as…
RTE: A step towards Edification and Development
Abstract: Education plays an important role in the overall development of a person. It helps one to become a good citizen, which could, in turn, become an asset in modern democratic concept. Right to education has opened a whole new arena for transforming…
Can Madrassas be compared with RSS run Schools?
Digvijay Singh’s tweet ‘Madrassas and Sarswati Shishu mandirs (SSM), both spread hate’ (Feb 23 2017) has evoked lot of response from diverse sections. On one hand Muslim groups have taken him on for demonization of Madrassas, and on the other, RSS supporters…
Status of Muslims in West Bengal – Appeasement or Exclusion?
“Muslims constitute a very large proportion of the poor. The fact that Muslims in West Bengal are disproportionately poorer and more deprived in terms of living conditions is an empirical recognition that gives this report an inescapable immediacy and practical…
Need to cleanse the education from the Dronacharayas
Hyderabad University cant escape from the blame of killing the young Dalit scholar. We want to ask this question why should students at this level be 'expelled'. The problem with these so-called institutions is that they want to 'discipline' students like…
#OccupyUGC movement intensified, All India University Strike on cards
It has been close to three months since the #OccupyUGC movement started as a spontaneous response of students to UGC's utterly rash decision of discontinuation of the non-NET fellowship scheme. Due to our sustained protests, the government was forced…