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An employee of Kolkata Police’s South West Traffic Guard teaching slum children, near a railway station in Kolkata on August 24.

Exclusion is the norm in school education

The ‘culling’ that has taken place due to school closure during the pandemic fits in well with the New Education Policy in a context where the educati

Irfan Habib: Defender of history

A symposium organised to celebrate Professor Irfan Habib’s 90th birthday brings into sharp focus the Sangh Parivar’s politics of relentless communal m

Children who missed online classes owing to a lack of Internet facilities listen to pre-recorded lessons over loudspeakers in Dandwal village in Maharashtra on July 23.

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

Queueing up for admission at Government Sarojini Naidu Girls College in Bhopal on June 29.

NEP 2019: The devil in the detail

The draft National Education Policy 2019 systematically evades the Constitution’s focus on social justice in educational institutions. It seeks to hav

Students at a protest demonstration against the Bill for the Higher Education Commission of India (Repeal Of University Grants Commission Act) Act, 2018, on July 18 in New Delhi.

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

While opening a school at Jayag, at Noakhali, in West Bengal for the refugee children, Gandhi is presenting a slate and a book to a boy and taking a primary book of Bengali for his learning. (07/02/1947)

Learning in a saffron-tinted market

The present regime has combined neoliberal policy with the Hindutva ideology and a sociopolitical offensive in public life and within educational inst

Mohammad Faizan, 5, learns counting on an abacus at a school, on the eve of International Literacy Day in Allahabad, India, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. According to Indian Census 2011, the literacy rate is 74.04 percent of the total population aged seven and above, though the government has made a law that every child under the age of 14 should get free education, the problem of illiteracy is still at large especially in the rural areas. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Public education in the marketplace

Successive governments have failed to meet their constitutional obligations in the field of education and have, instead, systematically deprived, then

Cultural encounters

A camel in the old part of Jerusalem is dressed up for tourists with woven textile bands of a Kulu shawl design. Nearby the proud possessions of the A