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  [bleu]Table of Contents Mainstream - Lockdown Edition no.23 | Aug 29, 2020[/bleu]

  28 August 2020

  Table of Contents - Mainstream, VOL LVIII No 37, New Delhi, August 29, 2020 Letter to the Readers - Mainstream, August 29, 2020 | The Editor Prashant Bhushan vs. Supreme Court - Contempt of Court or Truth and Democracy? | Sukla Sen I believe the Prime Minister | Salman Anees Soz New Education Policy 2020 Special Focus Issue * NEP: Fancy Ideals or Real Concerns? | Avijit Pathak * NEP 2020: Roadmap for Exclusivist Idea of India? | Biswajit Bhoi * The New Education Policy: A (…)

• Letter to the Readers – Mainstream, August 29 - Lockdown Edition No 23

  28 August 2020

  Letter to the Readers No 23 – August 29
  Chief ministers from the states of Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Jharkhand and Puducherry met in a virtual meeting at the initiative of Congress Party’s interim leader Sonia Gandhi and the Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee on August 26 and have called for forging a common alliance against the Central Government. They have grievances on many common issues the non-payment of GST dues and central government going (…)

• Prashant Bhushan vs. Supreme Court - Contempt of Court or Truth and Democracy? | Sukla Sen

  28 August 2020, by Sukla Sen

  by Sukla Sen
  Right now, we, Indians, are witnessing an extraordinary spectacle, involving the highest court of the land. So much so that the venerable New York Times has characterised it as the Supreme Court being on trial!
  A brief recap of the developments that led to it. Two recent tweets, dated June 27th and 29th, by Prashant Bhushan, a senior Supreme Court advocate - widely acknowledged as a crusader for justice and fairness in public life, has raised a veritable storm. On July 9, (…)

• I believe the Prime Minister | Salman Anees Soz

  28 August 2020

  by Salman Anees Soz
  Donald Trump critic George Conway recently wrote an opinion piece in the Washington Post, headlined “I (still) believe the president, and in the president”. Conway’s piece inspired me to write something that I didn’t think possible: I believe the prime minister and in the prime minister.
  I believe the prime minister when he says that there is “no intrusion” of the Chinese military into Indian territory, even though his own Defence Ministry posted a document on its (…)

• NEP: Fancy Ideals or Real Concerns? | Avijit Pathak

  28 August 2020, by Avijit Pathak

  [This article is part of New Education Policy 2020 Special Focus Issue]
  This article is not a detailed analysis of the National Education Policy (NEP 2020): its politico-economic and ideological implications, or the debates it has already generated regarding the possibility of increasing privatization and commodification of higher education. Instead, in this article, I will make an attempt to reflect—and that too through the eyes of a teacher—on some of the key ideals of education and (…)

• NEP 2020: Roadmap for Exclusivist Idea of India? | Biswajit Bhoi

  28 August 2020

  [This article is part of the New Educational Policy 2020 - Special Focus Issue]
  by Biswajit Bhoi*
  The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 announced by the Central Government has generated wide debate among the public and media. At a time when the government and people are concerned and struggling to protect their lives and livelihoods due to the covid-19 pandemic the government has shown undue haste to announce the NEP 2020 without even any parliamentary discussion and consultation with (…)

• The New Education Policy: A mixed bag | P.S. Jayaramu

  28 August 2020, by P S Jayaramu

  The Central Government’s New Education Policy(NEP) was out recently and is being debated nation Wide. While the NEP has covered a wide variety of issues ranging from Pre-School education to higher education, my purpose here is to scrutinise some of the key aspects of the Policy.

• Language Imposition And Education Policy | S.G.Vombatkere

  28 August 2020, by S G Vombatkere

  Language as the means to communicate thoughts, ideas, information and knowledge, is an inseparable part of personal and socio-cultural identity. Wars have been fought on the basis of language. An example is the birth of Bangladesh in 1971 due to dominant West Pakistan imposing Urdu on the Bengali-speaking people of East Pakistan.

• New Education Policy: Duties Before Implementation | Prem Singh

  28 August 2020, by Prem Singh

  [This article is part of New Education Policy 2020 Special Focus Issue]
  A friend of mine requested that I must contribute my suggestions sought by the government for the preparation of the New Education Policy (NEP). He reminded me about my elaborate critique of the report of Ambani-Birla Committee, constituted by Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He added that in the continuance of the argument presented in that critique I should suggest to the committee that the agenda of liberalization and (…)