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Blended Education or The Last Nail in the Coffin of Public Education: Preliminary Comments
This document is a haste attempt to somehow implement the actual agenda of the government. There is hardly any attention paid to the complexities involved in different disciplines. Social sciences and humanities or art and design or Biotechnology and Computer Sciences have their own specific disciplinary requirements. It also fails to reflect on how will… Read more
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Kerala Elections and Debates Around the Left Ministry
The exclusion of the former Kerala Health Minister K Shailaja despite her victory in elections has been criticised from Left politicians as well as sympathisers. Should one really worry so much about the exclusion?… Read More Kerala Elections and Debates Around the Left Ministry Read more
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Rosa Luxemburg and the Pedagogy of Revolution: Reflections on the current impasse facing the Indian Left
Ravi Kumar West Bengal slipped away from the hands of the Left as it lost the elections. Tripura, another state, decided to shift to the right parliamentarily. There were questions raised by the younger generation within the Left in Bihar during the 2020 elections. The Left in India is not in the best of its…… Read more
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New Education Policy is a neoliberal-neoconservative document: Only alternative lies in an anti-capitalist politics
Plethora of writings have emerged in a short span of time on New Education Policy approved by the Government of India. Most of them are critical of the policy because it has faltered on many accounts. Hence, it is being argued that (1) it is encouraging privatisation; (2) it is against the marginalised classes, castes…… Read more
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Pandemic, Migration and the Education Crisis: How Capitalism Aggravated it
The painful pictures of migrants heading home must be haunting many people. The reality is that there is no correct estimation of how many workers migrate internally in India, given the precarity and the unavailability of jobs. According to a World Bank estimate, there are nearly 40 million internal migrants. The figure was echoed in…… Read more