What we have is a long-drawn situation of conflict between the fundamental interests of society. Reopening is going to be a long and uneven process, filled with fear and suspicion, more for some than for others.
-
-
Students from the Northeast have seen new waves of clinical racial bias in other parts of India. Will students from India face racial prejudice overseas this fall? In an altered, fearful world, what does it mean for racism against students?
BY Saikat Majumdar 28 July 2021
-
Abruptly, the pandemic-induced cancellation of exams has pushed us towards the terrain of the future, where the importance of board exam results in college admission decisions will continue to diminish.
BY Saikat Majumdar 12 July 2021
-
In a plague year, what does it mean for a schoolteacher to be the foot solider for the election? Our poorest children have long paid the price of their teachers’ state-mandated absence. Now many of these teachers have paid the price with their lives.
BY Saikat Majumdar 23 June 2021
-
When school resumes, let’s not go back to our usual obsession with exams and syllabus. Let’s acknowledge the catastrophe around us and make it part of our children’s experience of growth, learning, and mental health.
BY Saikat Majumdar 17 May 2021
-
Removing mathematics, physics and chemistry as a basic pre-condition for an engineering course is a short-sighted measure that dilutes and erodes the discipline.
BY Saikat Majumdar 19 April 2021
-
Those who know the slim volume know what a unique text it is – a polemical, novelistic essay, an unforgettable manifesto from an age of sinewy manifestos, one of the most influential credos of feminism and pacifism are known to humanity.
BY Saikat Majumdar 6 April 2021
-
How has the farmers’ protest movement affected our schools? How are our youngest students shouldering its burdens?
BY Saikat Majumdar 6 March 2021
-
For all its good intentions, the NEP’s multiple-entry options for college will only further deepen the sharp education apartheid that defines our nation.
BY Saikat Majumdar 10 February 2021
-
For children from India’s poorest families, a lost year of learning has been the least of their losses. School closure has meant the loss of safe spaces, daily nourishment, and the very experience of childhood.
BY Saikat Majumdar 30 December 2020
Advertisement
Newsletter
Signup for Outlook and get curated content to your inbox everyday.