What is ‘Dharma’? Creating the Dharma of Sustainable Educational Models
Dharma? Is it complicated to explain? Is it a simple concept? What is “the dharma”? How to define it? It’s said to be full and empty, nothing and everything, unqualified, unformed, unknowable, all knowing, More...
Pragmatic Poets: John Dewey & Rabindranath Tagore
As the turbulent 20th century ended and the next millennium commenced, an analytical catharsis, stimulated by postmodern theories, catalyzed the field of curriculum and instruction. Traditional pedagogical methodologies More...
Raja Rao Experienced “India as an Idea”
Raja Rao was my professor when I was an undergraduate student at the University of Texas at Austin from 1976 -1981. I started college after spending four years in India, arriving at the Indo-Pak border on December More...
Myopic Pedagogy: Prejudicial Representations of India in U.S. Social Studies Classrooms
When negative stereotypes about India are taught as fact in American classrooms, students of Indian heritage may be adversely impacted as they struggle to work out their identity in a pluralistic, predominately More...
Pakistani Travelogue-II: Pakistani Perceptions of India
[contextly_sidebar id=”hfSO3toJTSSxNwE5BxJ1HU7EJttBiDDT”] Gargantuan government edifices glittered behind freshly painted wrought-iron fences, glamorous palaces to Pakistani politics in marble and brass More...
Kargil and the Manufacturing of History –III
[contextly_sidebar id=”Mgin1FqHgad1s782C1hodCMbJoB9O7QM”] In Pakistan in 1999, the “war-like” conflict in Kargil was a powerfully relevant ‘real-time’ example of my scholarly research, as I was More...
South Asianist sepoys oppose ‘Idea of India’
The Caravan published an article titled ‘In California, A Debate Over History Curricula Has Brought to Fore Denials of Caste in the Indian American Community.’ by its copy-editor Aria Thaker on April 12, 2016. More...
Kargil And The Manufacturing Of History-II
[contextly_sidebar id=”jovmbKmY9GY76GXY4apfRvvEstVV4WVj”] The diplomacy bus was sparkling new as I rode from Delhi to Lahore in June 1999, our high profile vehicle had a military escort all the way from More...
Kargil And The Manufacturing Of History-I
In the spring of 1999, when the “war-like” situation erupted in Kashmir in the Kargil district, I was doing research regarding history textbooks in Bangladesh. A few weeks before I left Bangladesh, a direct More...
Pakistani Travelogue-I: Welcome to Multan
During my first visit to Pakistan in 1997 I was scheduled to make a speech in Multan at Bahauddin Zakariya University. Before flying to Multan, I spent a remarkable week in Sindh, where I met incredibly articulate More...