Dr Manisha Bangar (Round Table India has been hosting a series of online talks by activists and thinkers on issues of importance to the Bahujan. This is the transcript of Dr Manisha Bangar’s talk on July 25th, 2020) Thank you so much for inviting me to give this very important talk, ‘COVID-19 and the failures …
Draft National Education Policy 2019 deserves to be rejected outright
Shikshan Sangharsh Samanwaya Samiti(A Co-ordination Committee on Draft NEP 2019)Contact Info.: Address- c/o Harishchandra Sukhdeve, C-4, Mulik Complex,Somalwada, Wardha Road, Nagpur – 440 025Email: harishsukhdeve@outlook.com (Letter to HRD Minister and all MPs) Nagpur, 5 September, 2019 Hon’ble Member of Parliament, New Delhi Respected Madam / Sir, Subject: Draft National Education Policy 2019 deserves to be …
Privatisation of Indian Railways
Rajeev R Singh Railway employees are protesting. But who is listening? This government is hell bent on privatising the Indian Railways, but in today’s age and times, it’s a non-issue, as it’s the BJP who is at the helm and for them, all is maaf. While we have been busy since the last 5 …
उच्च शिक्षणाचे दरवाजे खुले व्हावे म्हणून TISS चे मुख्य गेट बंद आंदोलन सुरु आहे
सुजित निकाळजे (Sujit Nikalje) गेल्या काही वर्षांपासून शिक्षणाचे बाजारीकरण होत असून ७५ वर्षांपासून सामाजिक कार्यामध्ये ‘सामाजिक न्यायासाठी’ उभ्या असणाऱ्या टाटा सामाजिक विज्ञान संस्थेने इतर खाजगी शिक्षण संस्थांप्रमाणे शिक्षणाचे बाजारीकरण करून अनुसूचित जाती-जमाती, OBC व इतर कमकुवत तबक्यांतील विद्यार्थ्यांना शुल्क आकरण्यात आले व भरण्याची सक्ती केली आहे. शिक्षणाचे बाजारीकरण थांबवून भारतीय संविधानाने ठरवून दिलेल्या मूलभूत …
Merit hona mangta: An essay on the FTII strike
Nidhin Shobhana This essay is a response to the on-going strike in FTII against the appointment of Gajendra Chauhan as the Chairman of the said Institute. I would contextualize the strike on a larger canvas called Brahmanism (not read as Hindutva1). In the essay I would make a modest effort to understand the term …