How Five Panjab University Women Students Launched a Movement That Could Change Campus Politics Forever
A look at the ideas and issues that encouraged the larger Punjabi society to rally behind a campus protest led by a handful of students.
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A Brief History of India’s Education System, Part 5: Towards Free, Equitable, Quality Education
The tenth part of a series of articles on ‘India’s Education Journey: From Macaulay to NEP’. This article questions the popularly held view that there is no alternative to sending children to private schools because government schools are of poor quality and have poor learning outcomes.
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A Brief History of India’s Education System, Part 4F: Assault on Autonomy and Academic Freedom of Our Universities
The tenth part of a series of articles on ‘India’s Education Journey from Macaulay to NEP’. Since universities are crucial spaces for questioning authority and expressing dissent, ever since the Modi Government came to power in 2014, it has launched a vicious assault on our universities to bring them under its ideological control. This article discusses this assault on our universities.
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A Brief History of India’s Education System, Part 4E: Opening up Higher Education to Foreign Universities
The ninth part of a series of articles on ‘India’s Education Journey from Macaulay to NEP’. This article discusses the opening up of India’s higher education sector to foreign universities under the NEP-2020.
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A Brief History of India’s Education System, Part 4D: Higher Education During the Modi Years
The eigth part of a series of articles on ‘India’s Education Journey from Macaulay to NEP’. This article discusses the impact of the Modi Government’s NEP-2020 on India’s higher education system.
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Faux Welfare
India has replaced genuine welfare—education, health, justice, and environmental care—with short-term handouts that buy loyalty but stunt progress.
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A Brief History of India’s Education System, Part 4C: Saffronisation of School Education
The seventh part of a series of articles on ‘India’s Education Journey from Macaulay to NEP’. This article discusses a key strategy adopted by the BJP for advancing its political and cultural agenda – the saffronisation of the country’s education system.
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A Brief History of India’s Education System, Part 3C: Neoliberalism and Higher Education
The fifth part of a series of articles on ‘India’s Education Journey from Macaulay to NEP’. This article discusses the impact of the neoliberal policies implemented in India during the period 1991-2014 on the higher education.
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A Brief History of India’s Education System, Part 3B: Neoliberalism and School Education
Fourth part of a series of articles on ‘India’s Education Journey from Macaulay to NEP’. This article discusses the impact of the neoliberal policies implemented in India during the period 1991-2014 on the school education system.
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A Brief History of India’s Education System, Part 3A: Education Under Neoliberalism: 1990–2014
By the late 1970s, the Nehru model was in crisis. In the early 1980s, the Indian Government decided to approach the IMF for a huge foreign loan, in return for which it offered to voluntarily implement economic reforms and partially liberalise the economy.
