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[bleu]Table of Contents, Mainstream, July 2, 2022[/bleu]
2 July 2022* Affirmative Action in Higher Education: India and the West | Arup Maharatna
* Academic Freedom, Institutional Autonomy and the Board of Governors | Nabanipa Bhattacharjee & Manish Thakur -
Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 2, 2022
2 July 2022Letter to the readers, Mainstream, July 2, 2022
If you are critic of the Government in India led by Prime Minister Modi, sooner or later the state machine (or ruling party-friendly infrastructure) will go after you, this has pretty much become a set pattern for all to see. On June 25, 2022 when many of India’s human rights groups were marking the anniversary of the infamous declaration of Emergency in 1975, we saw the arrest of Teesta Setalvad one of India’s pioneering human rights (…) -
Affirmative Action in Higher Education: India and the West | Arup Maharatna
2 July 2022, by Arup MaharatnaAbstract: [gris]There are distinct indications that a persistent pressure for rapid expansion of enrolment or market or revenues particularly in the case of growing private HE institutions has fuelled and contributed to a rising spread, popularity, and reach of affirmative action in HE generally in developed countries. A considerable uncertainty prevails over the extent of realization or realizability of the purported effects of affirmative action in HE and of increased diversity in the (…)
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Academic Freedom, Institutional Autonomy and the Board of Governors | Nabanipa Bhattacharjee & Manish Thakur
1 July 2022, by Nabanipa Bhattacharjeeby Nabanipa Bhattacharjee and Manish Thakur *
Under the section “Effective Governance and Leadership for Higher Education Institutions”, the National Education Policy 2020 (hereafter NEP 2020) makes eight references to the Board(s) of Governors (hereafter BoG) of Indian higher educational institutions within a space of two paragraphs. A careful reading of this section reveals the front-staging of the BoGs as effective antidotes to the hitherto ‘heavy-handed’ and bureaucratic regulation of (…) -
Style in Law as Literature: Reflections on the Dissenting Judgement in The Sabarimala Case (2018) | Monika
1 July 2022by Monika
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[gris]The paper argues that when looking at law as literature, the style of writing a judgement is not merely, as can be considered for literature otherwise, a result of the creativity, predisposition or the literary imagination of a judge as an author but is rather circumscribed (if not determined) by the immediate context or the social imagination they speak to and operate in. The leeway to be verbose, the literary flair, the use of rhetoric and sharp convictions (…) -
Democracy in peril | Sukumaran C.V.
1 July 2022, by Sukumaran C.V.by Sukumaran C.V.
Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand are the editors of the monthly magazine Communalism Combat. The March-April 2002 issue of the monthly was titled as "Genocide: Gujarat 2002". The Editors’ Note of that issue of the CC says:
"The torching of bogey S-6 of the Ahmedabad-bound Sabarmati Express at Godhra on February 27, in which 58 passengers, including 26 women and 12 children, were burnt to death, is an unpardonable act. The perpetrators of this grossly inhuman (…)