Thursday, December 12, 2024

Revisiting Girls’ Education at the Crossroads of Social Inequity

The following piece looks at issues around girls' education with a special focus on caste, religion, location, and identity in contemporary India.

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Sharing Meals and Candid Conversations with Gandhi in the Classroom

A pedagogically nuanced engagement with Gandhi can enrich the classroom and help us rethink issues that effect our lives as educators and learners alike.

What Gandhi believed is the purpose of a corporation

The popularity of his nonviolent teachings – which inspired civil rights activists such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela – has obscured another important facet of his teachings: the proper role of business in society.

The Perils of Being Republic

REPUBLIC DAY SPECIAL The 69th Republic Day is here and now is the ripe moment to think of the trajectory of the nation. With success and contradiction, achievement and challenges, India is unfolding its unique tale. Let us revisit, let us contemplate and think of this nation that we call ours. Kavya Thomas

Gandhi, Education and Rural Reconstruction: An Abandoned Dream

Gandhi's vision of education is deeply intertwined with the idea of rural reconstruction, here is an article looking at this important issue.
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BOOK REVIEW

Book: To Sir, With Love – E.R. Braithwaite, By Sana Khan

                         The Art of Teaching: A Process of Becoming E.R. Braithwaite, To Sir, With Love, Vintage, London, 2005 (first published:1959)  Here is an inspiring account...

Adivasi Education, Ecological Consciousness and the Politics of ‘Development’

While encroachment and interference in tribal communities has been part of the statistic approach to development for long, it is time we turned back to the Adivasis and learnt from them some real lessons in sustainability and democratic living that mainstream societies have long overlooked.

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The last two northern white rhino females

Though the northern white rhino is functionally extinct – following the loss of Sudan, the last known living male, five years ago this week – conservationists are finding hope in a technique that is creating new embryos using genetic material taken from him and two remaining females.

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