https://mainstreamweekly.net/ Mainstream Weekly ISSN (Mainstream Online) : 2582-7316 Author Submission Guidelines Mainstream's Privacy Policy Donate to Support Mainstream Weekly en SPIP - www.spip.net https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH42/siteon0-5599c.jpg?1780229567 https://mainstreamweekly.net/ 42 144 https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article3843.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article3843.html 2012-12-01T00:59:39Z text/html en Madhulika Sharma <p>November 11 is marked as the National Education Day in India. It is a day to commemo-rate the great educationist, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, who envisioned education as the “birthright of every citizen”. While addressing the Central Advisory Board of Education on November 9-10, 1953, he stated: “A state cannot claim to have discharged its duty till it has provided for every single individual the means to the acquisition of knowledge and self-betterment.”1 India is still struggling to meet this (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique107.html" rel="directory">2012</a> https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article2319.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article2319.html 2010-09-20T06:44:13Z text/html en Madhulika Sharma <p>BOOK REVIEW <br class='autobr' /> Multilingual Education for Social Justice: Globalising the Local by A.K. Mohanty, M. Panda, R. Phillipson and T. Skutnabb-Kangas (eds.); Orient Blackswan Private Limited, New Delhi; 2009; pages 400. <br class='autobr' /> One of the aspects of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is the preservation of linguistic heritage. Linguistic globalisation, which has given English a predominant position, can lead to the extinction of many indigenous languages. To preserve the (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique105.html" rel="directory">2010</a>