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“I’ve not known the restraints now being imposed on the academic freedom to exist on the IIM campus during the last five years. But things have changed”, says the author.
Private schools will never remain accountable to the government. If we have to prevent incident like the one described in this article, it is one more reason that now India must nationalize education and implement a common school system.
Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi is known for his supreme sacrifice in trying to stop communal violence in Kanpur in 1931. Another lesser known duo from Ahmedabad, who displayed similar idealism and laid down their lives on 1 July, 1946, were Vasant Rao Hegiste and Rajab Ali Lakhani.
It is a matter of shame for us as a society that Bilkis Bano’s rapists have been released by a District level committee of Gujarat Government. Let us speak out so that humanity survives, so that innocent people feel safe and criminals are discouraged.
Sandeep Pandey Before the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act, National Register of Citizens and National Population Register dharna at Ghata Ghar was symbolically withdrawn on 23 March morning, I happened to visit the dharna site on 21 March evening with the purpose of sitting their with my spinning wheel or Charkha in support of the women. Immediately…
86-year-old Swami Gyan Swaroop Sanand sat on an indefinite fast in Haridwar on 22 June 2018 to demand making a law on conservation of river Ganga. Nobody came to see him from the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation. He was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Haridwar but…
When Bhartiya Janata Party government was formed in Uttar Pradesh under the leadership of Yogi Adityanath a number of educated middle class people thought that days of caste politics and corruption were over. They were expecting a clean government. The Yogi Adityanath government cancelled all sand mining contracts alleging illegality and corruption in operations and…
A former Director General of Border Security Force, DGP, UP and Assam, Prakash Singh has written a piece in Indian Express saying that Kathua and Unnao incidents of rape were not as much of darkest hour since Independence as claimed by 49 prominent retired bureaucrats, which include N.C. Saxena, E.A.S. Sarma, Harsh Mander, Wajahat Habibullah…
The City Montessori School of Lucknow figures in the Guinness Book of World Records for largest enrollment of 55,000 in a school, although it is not one school but has 18 different branches spread throughout the city. Its founder Jagdish Gandhi has won the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education for promoting the universal values of…
Dr. Ambedkar Mahasabha honoured the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath with Dalit Mitra or Friend of the Dalit award on the birth anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar on 14 April 2018 in Lucknow. This is the same government which had arrested Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan, the founder of Bhim Army which runs over 300 education…
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