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‘“Indianisation” of Syllabi is Hollowing Out Knowledge in Our Universities’; ‘Gagged Campuses, Hollowed Classrooms: The Universities in India Today’; ‘Cash Crunch, Research Void and Guest Faculty Surge: The Collapse of Social Sciences in India’; ‘The Cost of Learning: Protests Mount Across Universities as Fee Hikes Deepen Crisis of Accessibility’.
Diversified farming can resolve ecological and monetary concerns but an agricultural transformation is impossible without better government support. Part II: Thirsty Crops, Tired Soil: Vicious Loop Threatens India’s Food and Water Security. Part III: The Fertiliser Addiction of Indian Farming is a Crisis.
‘The Eternal Gandhi’: Amidst a Bid to Tarnish His Legacy, the Mahatma Endures. Also: ‘Now Is a Good Time to Be Concerned About the Truth and Non-Violence’; and ‘Decoding the RSS Hypocrisy of Respecting Gandhi’.
The lecture examines the erosion of constitutional morality, the weakening of parliamentary democracy and the growing centralisation of power in India’s political system.
‘What’s at Stake for Indian Agriculture in Trump’s Trade Deal?’; ‘US Trade Deal Will Destroy Farmers by Flooding India with American Farm Produce: SKM’; ‘India to Eliminate Tariffs on Industrial and “Vast Array” of Agricultural Goods: Jamieson Greer’; ‘Perils of Opening India’s Agricultural Market to United States Business’.
‘UGC Equity Rules: SC Stay Triggers Nationwide Student Outrage’; ‘Refusal to See Caste Discrimination, Not ‘False Complaints’, Is the Real Crisis on Campus’; ‘Language of Balance Recourse of the Powerful: Satish Deshpande on Opposition to UGC Equity Rules’; ‘What Is ‘Reverse Discrimination’ and Why Is It Being Brought Up for the UGC’s 2026 Rules?’.
“Global, Regional, Internal: How Many More Self Goals Will the Modi Government Score?”; “India’s Strategic Loneliness in the Age of Trump: Why It Needs a Nehru Now”: The problem for India is that the West is not the only front that it is having trouble with. Things are not going well in the South Asian neighbourhood as well.
The twelfth and concluding part of a series of articles on ‘India’s Education Journey: From Macaulay to NEP’. This article discusses the measures the Government of India can take to increase its revenues to finance universal, free, good-quality education for all children, and also increase its social sector expenditures in other areas.
ASHA workers, India’s frontline health workers, handle a range of tasks: from fever surveillance, antenatal care to accompanying pregnant women to healthcare facilities. The bulk of India’s healthcare data is generated and maintained by these frontline workers. For this, they are paid an honorarium which is barely enough to make ends meet.
Despite a budget that exceeds some States, the BMC has failed to address a chronic civic issue that has cost the city several lives.
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