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HECI Bill

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17-08-201833 STORIES

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National Eligibility Test

Recruitment woes

The HRD Minister’s recent announcement making the doctorate degree mandatory for assistant professors and discontinuing the NET as an eligibility cr

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Rewriting textbooks

Manufacturing history

From rewriting history textbooks tailored to suit its political agenda to devaluing science and scientific temper, the BJP regime’s “reforms” in educ

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Legalising racism

Israel’s Nation-State Law draws widespread condemnation as it reduces Palestinians and other minorities to second-class citizens and gives the state

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Mumbai's architectural heritage

A unique ensemble

Mumbai’s Victorian Gothic and Art Deco buildings, collectively unparalleled, make it to the World Heritage List.

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Higher education in peril

The move to establish a Higher Education Commission of India, which seeks to supplant the 62-year-old University Grants Commission, is the culminatio

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Private domination of education

Private reign

The latest AISHE report on higher education shows rising enrolment and a gargantuan private presence in the sector.

Ramesh Chakrapani

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Discovering Dolpo

The unforgivingly rugged terrain of Dolpo in mid-western Nepal is where the Himalaya still holds its own, beyond human intervention. Text & photograp

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Celebrating integration

The French team’s unity needs to percolate down to the everyday life of the nation for it to be a guiding force in today’s fragmented world.

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Neeraj, poet and lyricist

An unsung genius

Lyricist Gopaldas Neeraj was essentially a poet whose words built bridges between Hindi and Urdu to resonate with the common man.

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An artist as an anarchist

Interview with A.J. Thomas, author, poet and translator.

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West Bengal: Report on education

Problematic report card

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No-confidence motion

Signs of unease

The events before the no-confidence debate and after it show how the BJP is concerned about the cracks appearing in its alliance in the run-up to the

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History of judicial robes

The judge’s new robe

How the three judges on the Federal Court wrote to one another about the clothes they were going to wear in court and how their appearance would impa

Targeting of Dalits

Blind and brutal

The police crackdown on Dalits in Uttar Pradesh following the April 2 Bharat bandh does not spare even children.

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C.P. Chandrasekhar

Another dressed-up Central scheme

An assessment of the Modi government’s modified crop insurance scheme suggests that more than farmers it is the insurance companies that have benefite

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The wrongs in Kashmir

It is hard to imagine a more even-handed report than the “Situation of Human Rights in Kashmir” by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner

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Jadavpur University

A struggle in Jadavpur

The recent attempt by the authorities to meddle in the admission process that the Jadavpur University community has painstakingly developed over the y

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‘Come, Sister Fatima...’

This true story translated from Punjabi about the author’s mother is excerpted from “Bridge Across the Rivers”.

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Vision for the future

A collection of essays mapping out viable sustainable alternatives to capitalist modernity.

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End of autonomy

The HECI Bill allows the Central government to monopolise control over the academic life of the country, gravely endangering the autonomy and the fut

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Campuses of bias

Socially discriminatory practices against students from marginalised communities in educational institutions are among the major factors that have led

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Perils of privatisation

The government’s push towards greater privatisation of higher education will further marginalise the weaker sections of society and undo the gains ac

T.K. Rajalakshmi

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Interview: Sukhdeo Thorat

‘Takeover by the government’

Interview with Sukhadeo Thorat, former Chairman of the UGC.

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The datafied ‘us’

The book prepares us to take cognisance of the potential of algorithm, the blender machine that is splicing up our individuality into bits of erasable

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Councils of contention

Following the All India Muslim Personal Law Board’s plans to open more Darul Qazas in the country, community leaders try to keep the lid on misconstr

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An Indian Muslim’s story

The memoir inaugurates a subgenre as there are hardly any platforms where the Indian Muslim experience has been articulated as clearly as it has been

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Interview: Pratik Sinha

For awareness programmes, not laws

Interview with Pratik Sinha, co-founder of Alt News, a fact-checking website that busts fake news.

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Jio Institute: Institute in imagination

The declaration of Jio Institute as one of India’s six Institutes of Eminence even before it has been set up raises several questions.

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Imran’s innings

Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf emerges as the single largest party in the National Assembly election, a mandate that is suspected to have been

FL17NATO

Diplomatic assault

Donald Trump hectors NATO allies to increase military spending, rakes up Brexit in London, and gives a clean chit to Russian President Vladimir Putin

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Diary from Trumpland

Trump and the Russian hand

While there are many conventional reasons why Hillary Clinton lost in 2016, including racist voter suppression and misogyny, investigation into the R

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Letters to the editor

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A cupful of surprises: Football World Cup 2018

The 2018 edition of the football World Cup was unforgettable chiefly because of the thrilling unpredictability right from the start.

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

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