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Cartoons, Caste and Epistemic Violence (Part 2)

by rti_adminon September 4, 2012March 20, 20230

Nilesh Kumar [This is the second part of his article on caste and epistemic violence. The first part explored how the Ambedkar cartoon in the NCERT text book was a metaphor for epistemic violence. Here, he tries to explain how the cartoon is just one more illustration of how entrenched violence is in academia; one …

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The Death of Merit: Failure of India’s Premier Educational Institutions

by rti_adminon March 11, 2012March 20, 20238

Gurinder Singh Azad Is it embedded hatred within elite institutes and their students and faculty against reserved category students, or it is merely coincidence, that of the students committing suicide in the premier institutes of this nation, the number belonging to the reserved category students is much higher? Once again, it is AIIMS that finds …