Tag: Education

Jyotiba Phule’s Trenchant Critique of Caste: Gulamgiri

First Published on: 11 Apr 2016On his 189th Birth Anniversary, April 11, we bring to you excerpts from Jyotiba Phule’s path breaking work, severely criticising Brahminism and the Caste...

Majoritarian Nationalism: Undermining Scientific Temper

With Hindu Nationalist BJP in the saddle of power...

Public Vs Private Education – A New Experiment By Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy

There is a lot of curiosity about forthcoming elections...

Who is afraid of the writings of Babasaheb Ambedkar?

First Published on: January 16, 2016Collected Works sell sans...

Rohith’s death: We are all to blame

First published on January 19, 2016Supply Sodium Cynanide and...

UP: High school girls’ viral letter to DM, ‘No Library, Computers, or Even Blackboards…’

The letter from students that has gone viral exposes deplorable conditions at the government High School, Raitpur in Aligarh district.

Education for a Hindu Rashtra: UGC-NCERT pushing a divisive agenda

As the ruling party is close to completing two...

Recent reports suggest that higher education enrolment in Muslims continues to decline

Recent reports by government agencies and officials have revealed fresh data and insights that indicate, that Muslim educational enrolment continues to face a steep decline

While Modi plays the OBC card, backward castes & Adivasis remain excluded from Central University

The premier educational institutes of the country continue to exclude marginalised communities. According to the latest figures, the constitutionally-mandated reservation policies are not fully implemented in 45 central universities. 

Parenting in an Age of Unreason

There was a time when India’s history and social science official texts though burdened with a slew of dates and events in a top down linear narrative nevertheless celebrated the reality of the evolution of a rich and diverse civilizational ethos. Today, the corrosive power of exclusion and hate runs deep: eleven days ago, April 14, reports of a deeply-disturbing incident caused concern on social media but was met with a deafening silence by India’s political class: an 11-year-old boy was allegedly thrashed and stripped simply to pressurise him into “chanting religious slogans” in Madhya Pradesh's Indore. That is how deep of hate flows now in India’s veins

‘Rationalisation’ of Text books or Communalisation of the Polity?

Representation ImageText books of schools are also a site...

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