Dr. Rajendra Prasad: Education And Our Present Needs
I must, at the very outset, express my sense of obligation to you for having afforded me this opportunity of addressing a few words to the graduates who, after qualifying from this University,
Education Reform
Union Government scholarships favour Minorities, even over SC/STs & OBCs – Part 2
Earlier, we had looked at the sectarian bias that exists in Central Government scholarships with respect to SC/STs and Minorities. A little more digging reveals an even more abysmal state when…
Thumbs up to Draft National Education Policy 2019, needs speedy implementation
The new National Education Policy (NEP) drafting process was started in 2015 under then HRD Minister Smriti Irani, and after several delays the draft policy was finally released a few…
Hindutva: Mere Materialism?
There have been a number of opinion pieces published in the past few days in which the authors, some of whom have considerable foothold in the current establishment, have declared…
Madan Mohan Malaviya – Reformer and Nationalist Who Gave Benaras Hindu University
“Grant me a son, the equal of whom has not been born, nor shall be born.” was what Pandit Vrajnath prayed for. The British conquest of Bharat was not just…
Questions to Minister for Human Resource Development – Prakash Javadekar
On the occasion of Teachers’ Day on 5th September, 2018, the Minister for Human Resource Development, Shri Prakash Javadekar organised a twitter chat session #AskPrakashJavadekar where twitter users were asked to…
Babus Caught Red-Handed Accepting Bribe from School to Release RTE Funds – Pune
Two zilla parishad education department officials, who were caught red-handed by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday, while receiving a bribe from a school principal, have now blamed their senior…
Why Bharat Should Pay Attention to Rajiv Malhotra
I wonder how many of us in Bharat actually pay attention to Rajiv Malhotra and his brand of Swadeshi Indic thoughts. After Narendra Modi’s uprising, the dissent from the so-called…
JNU Hooliganism – Professors and Staff Heckled, Attacked Over Basic Attendance Norms
In a circular dated 10 January, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has made a minimum of 75 per cent attendance compulsory for all students to avail of scholarships and fellowships, based on the recommendations…
English Medium Education Weakens Bharat – The PISA Test Proved It
It is no secret why the British replaced the indigenous education system and Sanskrit gurukuls with English education. They wanted to create a class of Bharatiyas who think like the…