Religious Pluralism and Distorted Notions of Secularism in Education
The events of the European Reformation and its aftermath in which the material power of the Christian Church was reduced, still hang heavy as a collective memory in social orders that have inherited this civilization. More...
Skills for Life and Livelihood: Revive the Old Approach to Education
Education in India has always been a symbol of pride and heritage. Delivery of quality education to all has been a prolonged effort post-independence. Presently, India is one of the world’s fastest growing economies More...
Moving Away from Macaulayite Education
The fact that both English education and the mindless premium placed on the English language in India is at the root of several important problems faced by India since Independence is a given. However, I am not More...
Decolonizing the Humanities
Humanities are the foundation of any society. National leaders and thinkers must be schooled in the humanities, with deep roots in the nation and the society they seek to lead. And Indian humanities have deep spiritual More...
Aurangzeb Road: Symptom of a Deeper Malaise
The Congress has always been a party held together by a personality—first by Mohandas Gandhi, later Nehru, and now Sonia Gandhi. It is inevitable therefore that force of personality rather than concerns of national More...
The Colonized Indian Mind
An excerpt from Michel Danino’s book Indian Culture and India’s Future. In the clash of two civilizations – for it was undoubtedly one – the European, younger, dynamic, hungry for space and riches, More...
Why FTII Agitators should be Prosecuted
Pune’s Film & Television Institute of India is once again in the limelight—this time for the supposedly draconian crackdown on the striking students in a midnight swoop. There is a sense of déjà vu among More...
Madrassa Move is a Step to End Appeasement
The Maharashtra government’s move to consider madrassas as “non-schools” and their students as “out of school” has stirred a national debate in India. Opposition politicians and some More...
A Primer on Economics: Counterfactual exercise in India’s GDP
There comes a time in every endeavour when it becomes imperative that one does a bit of arithmetic. One of the co-founders of the field of artificial intelligence, the late John McCarthy of Stanford University used More...
NDA to UPA: How the UPA destroyed education
IIT Bombay was ranked at #36 in U.S. News & World Report’s World’s Best Colleges and Universities rankings based on the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings identified these to be More...