Not Oppressed: A Statement of Shudra Pride
“There is hardly a village, great or small, throughout our territories, in which there is not at least one school, and in larger villages more.” (Source: G.L. Prendergast, 1820) “It has generally been More...
Battle for Epistemic Supremacy
Not a day goes by before some ‘eminence’ or the other talks about the dangerous ascent of ‘Hindu-supremacists’ and how the Sangha (VHP, RSS etc.) is the reincarnation of the Nazis in their purest form. More...
An Indian Classics Curriculum
Higher education around the world is facing a crisis. Students are caught between the ever increasing cost of tuition and the permanent loss of jobs due to automation and AI. Several things are being considered More...
Reimagining Education in New India
The huge middleclass India of today is not satisfied with a fractured idea of India, an India whose past is inglorious, an India which has to negate its core values to accommodate the sensitivities of minority communities. More...
The imperative of decolonizing Indian education
Seemingly mindless Hindi movies often drop, albeit unknowingly, pearls of wisdom and offer insights into the working of society. While watching one such experiment titled Yamla, Pagla, Deewana, I came across a typical 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...
इंग्रजी माध्यमामुळं देश दुर्बल होत आहे
The article has been translated into Marathi by Professor Manohar Railkar [Translators Note: आपल्या देशांत इग्रजी माध्यमाचं स्तोम अकटोविकट More...
Left’s Infiltration Into Education: The Great Betrayal by our Educators
What brings the Antifa, the Black Lives Matter, the radical feminists, Communists and Islamists together? There indeed is a one-word answer to that rather tedious question: Postmodernism. This non-/anti-philosophical More...
How India went from World’s Education Capital to Depths of Illiteracy –I
When Tagore started an open-air school at Shantiniketan in 1901, which later went on to become a famous university, he was one in a long line of educators from India, who believed that holistic learning could only More...
College Education: What Reservation Has Done to It
College education in India is plagued by myriad problems, of which, I believe, the biggest is reservation. Considering the absence of a discourse on eliminating the so-called ‘positive discrimination’ in mainstream More...