-The Indian Express Last month, a 12-year-old Dalit boy in Jodhpur was beaten up by his teacher for allegedly taking a plate from a stack meant for upper castes. The Indian Express visits schools across the country where lessons in caste differences start early. Chennai: IN the schools of Tirunelveli, about 650 km south of Chennai, caste comes in shades of red, yellow, green and saffron. It’s what students wear on...
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'One in three children in Bengaluru slums are underweight' -Tanu Kulkarni
-The Hindu Bengaluru: One in three children in slums in Bengaluru are underweight reveals a sample survey conducted by Child Rights and You (CRY). The survey, which was conducted in five slums in the city and covered 258 children was released on Tuesday. The survey stated that only 47 per cent of the children in Bengaluru slums are enrolled in Anganwadis. The survey also found that 66 per cent of the parents surveyed in...
More »The question of learning -Jayati Ghosh
-Frontline In Rajasthan, the abysmal state of school education has forced pupils, particularly girls, to come out in protest against the shortage of teachers and lack of infrastructure. IT was just over a year ago, on Gandhi Jayanti 2014, that girls of the senior secondary school of the town of Bhim in Rajasthan went on strike. The young, fresh-faced and neatly groomed girls were far removed from anyone’s idea of potentially rowdy...
More »A State Of Mind -Vikram Patel
-The Indian Express Decades of mismanagement have hobbled India’s mental health programme An event commemorating World Mental Health week opened at the WHO in Geneva this week. At a key session, the Disease Control Priorities project released its recommendations to governments to address the burden of mental disorders. This was timely for India, for few countries have witnessed so many high-profile debates related to mental health while ignoring the centrality of mental health...
More »Working women cause of unemployment, says Chhattisgarh school textbook -Rashmi Drolia
-The Times of India RAIPUR: Amid a union minister recently stoking a row saying that girls wanting a night out is not acceptable in India, BJP ruled Chhattisgarh has went a step further with its class X social science textbook quoting that "working women are one of the causes of unemployment" in the country". A young teacher in tribal Jashpur district in Chhattisgarh has confronted government, questioning the content being served to...
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