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‘Hollowing Out the Uniform of the Armed Forces’: The risk is not that military officers are religious, but that the institutions they man are beginning to look religiously positioned. Also: ‘Military Veterans Express Concern Over Serving Officers Publicly Associating with Godmen, Religious Events’.
India’s linguistic diversity is being reframed as proof of an ancient cultural unity centred on Sanskrit, even though linguistic evidence points in the opposite direction.
‘The Modi Magic Lies Dismantled’: While the swagger is gone, Modi is now unwittingly parading his failures before the nation. Also: ‘Prime Minister Modi Humiliated India During His Visit to Israel’; and: ‘Cowards Then and Cowards Now’.
‘Delay and Deference in India’s Courts and Other Institutions Have Normalised the Government’s Disregard of Laws and Constitutional Guarantees’; ‘The Communal, Criminal Injustice of the Stories of Bilkis Bano and Maya Kodnani’.
‘The Adivasi Imprint on the Constitution and the Republic’s Amnesia’: Has the Constitution failed India’s aboriginals, or was the faith of their forefathers tragically misplaced? Also: ‘Why Self-Rule Still Matters in India’s Tribal Homelands’: The tribals continue to push for fundamentally different forms of democracy and governance through the scheduling provisions under Article 244.
‘The Global War Over Seeds’: How corporations privatise the seeds of the Global South, including India, through patents, destroying biodiversity and trampling farmers’ rights. Also: ‘Farmers in India Reject the Seeds Bill and the Corporate Enclosure of Seeds’.
The NEP’s aims are multifaceted – more control over states, institutions and curricula; exclusion; segregation; rebranding of ‘model’ schools; closing and merging of schools; deletion, distortion, ‘Indianisation’ or Brahminisation of curricula; skilling; corporatisation, commercialisation …
‘Studying Subhash Chandra Bose: Debunking “Popular Myths” Through Bose’: The three primary myths are about Nehru and Bose’s relations, Bose and Patel’s relations and why Bose’s appropriation by the communal forces is the greatest irony. Also: ‘Netaji’s Vision of Secular Unity Remains Vital as India Faces Religious Polarisation’.
There is a yawning gap between their visions and independent India’s woeful track record in educating its citizens.
‘“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’.
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