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• Time for Upgradation in Education Policy

  12 August, by Eduardo Faleiro
  The fundamental right to education of all children up to the age of 14 years is enshrined in our Constitution. The State Government must provide the required facilities to the students so that they can exercise this Fundamental Right. Free  (...)

• Rethinking Our Education

  12 August
  by Saumitra Mohan
  There was a time when the Indian students pursued education for learning life-skills and acquiring knowledge. The pursuit of learning then was not about mugging facts and information, but was directed to lead the learners to  (...)

• What happens to those excluded from the NRC?

  12 August, by Humra Quraishi
  MUSINGS
  What happens to our 40 lakh human beings! In the latest draft of Assam’s National Register of Citizens, names of 40 lakh people are not included. That is, 12 per cent of Assam’s population has been left out!
  Though those excluded from  (...)

• Lok Sabha Elections 2019: A Perspective for Opposition Unity

  12 August
  by Prem Singh
  Before discussing the complex subject of Opposition unity, it would be appropriate to look at some obvious facts.
  Firstly, there exists no opposition to the neo-liberal policies that has prevailed for the past three decades in the  (...)

• Is there a ‘Unique Political Identity’ of the Middle Class?

  12 August
  by Anshu Srivastava
  Definitions of the new middle classes in India, as elsewhere, are problematic and confusing. Middle classes in India have been often defined by economic criteria alone based on annual household income. In the Euro-American  (...)

• Welcome Addition to the Literature on Sree Narayana Guru

  12 August
  BOOK REVIEW
  by Kadayam Subramanian
  Sree Narayana Guru: The Perfect Union Buddha and Sankara: A Comprehensive Biography by Asokan Vengassery Krishnan; Konark Publishers Pvt Limited, New Delhi, Seattle; pp. 365; Price: Rs 850.
  The author of this  (...)

• Pranab Mukherjee at RSS Headquarters

  12 August
  COMMUNICATION
  Our erstwhile President Pranab Mukherjee visited the RSS headquarters at Nagpur on June 7, 2018. He did so at the invitation of the RSS sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat. Bhagwat had visited Rashtrapati Bhavan several times when Pranab  (...)

• NRC and Beyond

  7 August
  POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
  The publication of the draft National Register of Citizens of Assam has thrown the State into turmoil. Naturally, because over four million Indian citizens’ names are just not there in the draft Register. They include Bengali  (...)

• Mandela on Gandhi and Nehru

  7 August
  The following are excerpts from the letter from prison sent by Nelson Mandela to the Indian Council for Cultural Relations expressing sincere gratitude for the presentation of the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding for 1979  (...)

• You are the Strength

  7 August
  You are just number 466/64 to them
  sweeping dusty paths,
  tilling and raking the soil of that island.
  But you are the strength,
  the determination
  that flows through the veins of your children
  fighting for you,
  you and all those numbers.
  Yes,  (...)

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