On June 1, one more suicide took place in Kota, sixth this year. While the issue of coaching menace and suicides in Kota for the past two months have entered prime time TV debates and received lot of press, it is ironical that just a day after JEE Advanced results were announced, ‘the most successful’ coaching institute advertised full pages …
An amazing ‘Manufactured’ Pedagogy at a small school in Delhi holds hope for a model that can qualitatively transform school education en masse says Autar Nehru THE TRAVEL to Muni International School from its nearest Metro station of Dwarka to Mohan Garden area in Delhi is an ordeal of negotiating unruly, cramming and diverse traffic along with people of all …
In several education institutions across India, Campus life is getting agitated. While enough has been said about JNU and Hyderabad Central University, NIT Srinagar is the latest to hit the headlines. That a petty incident could snowball into such a big controversy isn’t unexpected if it is Kashmir. Ever since time the legendary Kashmiri leader, Sheikh Mohd Abdullah, changed his …
The reportage of February 9 event at Jawaharlal Nehru University and its aftermath may become a turning point in student activism and campus politics. While the ‘disgraceful’ event demonized JNU as a hub of ‘Moist-secessionists’ nexus, the open-air lecture series on nationalism provided intellectual fodder and brought many a critical issues of national importance onto spotlight, something mainstream media very …
JAWARHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY OR JNU (ESB 1969 as a public central university by an Act of Parliament) is in the eye of political storm and if the storm is not mitigated, it can potentially spread to campuses across India. JNU has been the hotspot of student activism and traditionally left-wing ideology has held a sway here, a reason BJP politicians …
Some top of the list wishes to make life better of school going children somehow don’t get into policies and action plans. For instance, reducing the weight of school bag is one thing every parent and child loving person would like to see, but it has not happened and is in itself very old and a ‘lost battle’. It is …
