Empathy, compassion and intent to help others are far more satisfying than being a non-responsive bystander By Dr. Nitesh Dhawan, Public Servant, Author and Educator We are going through one of the most difficult times in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic which has turned out to be more lethal in its second wave. People are looking helpless and hopeless …
Ambarish Rai , National Convener of RTE Forum, a coalition of several organizations, groups and individuals including lawyers and educationists and spread over 20 states in India, died of suspected covid complications after being letdown by the ‘collapsing’ healthcare system on April 23 at an age of 61. His sudden passing away, no doubt, shocked almost everyone familiar with him …
In 2021 IIIT-Delhi is organizing a virtual summer camp for students of class VIII to XI of Government schools. The summer camp will commence from 17th May and go on till18th June 2021. This year students from the ‘School of excellence, Kalkaji’, ‘GGSSS, Kalkaji’, ‘GGSS, Tughlakabad Extn.’, ‘RPVV, Lajpat Nagar’, ‘GBSS, DDA flats, Kalkaji’, ‘GBSSS, Harkesh Nagar’ will be participating in the camp. The …
A team of undergraduate students (Ananya Pujary, Khushi Gupta and Muskaan Pal ) from the FLAME University, Pune, recently created an open-access archive of community cookbooks from across India under the ‘Indian Community Cookbook Project’ archive and contains digitized multilingual, region-specific community cookbooks that include handwritten and printed recipes across Indian languages. Further, it also utilizes cultural mapping tools to …
Higher Education and research are key to an enhanced trade partnership between the U.K. and India and is expected to pave the way for a future UK-India free trade agreement. This emerged after the British Prime-Minister Boris Johnson met Prime-Minister Narendra Modi virtually on May 4, after the U.K. prime-minister was forced to cancel his planned visit to Delhi in …
Disabled people across the Global South have faced significant discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving them at greater risk of life-threatening abuse, violence and mental health problems, according to a new study. It also carries a few recommendations that include creating a disability-inclusive recovery, engaging with disability researchers and advocacy groups, mapping disability covid and thinking about long-term sustainable systems …
