Decoding the New Education Policy

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28-08-202032 STORIES

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India at 75 - Non-fiction

Pivotal books that shaped the course of India’s cultural and intellectual life.

Abhirami Girija Sriram

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Elgar Parishad case: Victims of vendetta

Hany Babu is the latest victim of the Bhima Koregaon case, which drags on with no end in sight for the arrestees who languish in jail without bail.

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Anti-CAA protesters: Victims twice over

Even as interrogations, arrests and charge-sheeting of anti-CAA protesters as instigators of the February riots in North East Delhi continue despite t

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‘The government does not listen to us’

Interview with Zafarul-Islam Khan, former Chairman of the Delhi Minorities Commission.

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Reconversion of Hagia Sofia: Triumph or tragedy?

The recent reconversion of Hagia Sophia in Turkey into a mosque is another indication of the growing strength of communal politics the world over.

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Border Tensions

India&China: Fragile truce

Even as their military commanders negotiate disengagement of troops along the border, the “forced decoupling” of economies threatens to hurt both Indi

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Suffocating democracy in the Andes

From Bolivia to Colombia, underhand methods are being used to erase the possibility of democracy. And the coronavirus pandemic serves as a handy excus

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Jammu & Kashmir

Silent rage in Kashmir

One year after Jammu and Kashmir was deprived of its special status and its mainstream political voices were stifled, the people of the valley remain

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‘The fight for reservation is not over’

Interview with Thangam Thennarasu, DMK leader and former Education Minister.

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COVID-19 Update

COVID-19: Global distress

Some six months after the WHO declared the coronavirus outbreak to be a pandemic, the infection is raging on in full fury in South Asia, North America

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Christians as target during the lockdown

Christian institutions allege increase in violence against their members during the lockdown.

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Prisons become breeding grounds for the coronavirus

Overcrowded prisons across India have become fertile breeding grounds for the coronavirus.

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Interview: K. Srinath Reddy

‘Swinging from lockdown to laxity’

Interview with Professor K. Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India, and member of the ICMR’s high-level technical committee of pu

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COVID ventilators: Who cares?

Ventilators funded with government money do not seem to meet the required standards, and the way they were procured point to flagrant violations of ru

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Disease Surveillance

How the poor die

More than 15 years into its existence, the country’s “revamped” public health surveillance still lacks coordination, adequate resources, and is ridden

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COVID-19 strategy

COVID-19: Government gloating in defeat

The government continues to harp on its successes even as it bungles on testing methods and life-saving equipment and the confirmed cases and daily de

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Great Indian hornbill and its habitat

The great Indian air show in the Western Ghats

The great Indian hornbill in flight is a spectacle to behold. Unfortunately, this massive and elusive denizen of the forests of India, including in th

G. SHAHEED, Shefiq Basheer Ahammed

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Malayalam film "Run Kalyani": Patriarchy in perspective

The Malayalam film Run Kalyani is making waves with its realistic depiction of the romance of everyday living.

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Seroprevalence of COVID-19

COVID-19: Indian population still far from herd immunity

Now that there is some data in the public domain about the seroprevalence of COVID-19 in India, it is possible to say that about one out of four to fi

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Rajasthan Assembly crisis

Over to Assembly in Rajasthan

The political crisis in Rajasthan is headed for a climax in the special Assembly session scheduled for August 14, which is likely to decide the fate o

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Interview: Prof Shyam B. Menon

For the middle class and the market

Interview with Professor Shyam B. Menon, former Vice Chancellor of Ambedkar University of Delhi.

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Whose Sanskrit is it anyway?

By homogenising India’s past under the arch umbrella of Sanskrit, the plurality of Indian culture and the knowledge systems and cultural expressions p

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Interview: Prof Krishna Kumar

Prof. Krishna Kumar: ‘NEP 2020 offers more of the same remedy’

Interview with Professor Krishna Kumar, former director, National Council of Educational Research and Training.

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NEP&the pandemic

NEP 2020 implementation and timeline worries

The time frames of several provisions of the National Education Policy 2020, designed in a pre-pandemic situation, make it difficult to figure out the

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Decoding the agenda of the new National Education Policy

The push for online education is motivated by the need to resolve the crisis of neoliberal capitalism which is riding piggyback on Hindu Rashtra force

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Ayodhya Ram Temple

Wreckers return as builders in Ayodhya

The bhumi pujan for the Ram temple at Ayodhya on August 5 is one of the high points of the Sangh Parivar’s agenda to dismantle the pluralistic foundat

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Education&Social Equity

NEP 2020: High on rhetoric

The NEP makes tall promises, but there is no clarity of vision regarding actual translation of the goals of equity into reality.

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Economic Perspectives

Time to overhaul or replace GST

The Centre reneges on its commitment to compensate the States for any shortfall in revenues from the goods and services tax, claiming that its respons

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Education at the mercy of the market

NEP 2020 greatly increases the scope of private participation in education, ignores the country’s pluralistic traditions, and furthers the neoliberal

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Two cheers for Project Tiger

The fourth tiger estimation report says India has achieved significant growth in its tiger population but conservation challenges such as poaching and

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East Bengal Football Club: 100 not out

East Bengal Football Club faces its darkest hour without a sponsor, but it remains strong in the love and loyalty of millions of supporters.

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