-TheWire.in The rights of adivasis in the Indian constitution are not an act of benevolence to “mainstream and uplift them” but a recognition that the “mainstream” of Indian society has many streams that flow into it, each of them equally valid. The recent five-judge bench Supreme Court judgment in Chebrolu Leela Prasad Rao and Ors v State of AP and Ors, shows us once again how little the 5th Schedule of the...
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Covid-19: Kerala shows the way -AM Jigeesh
-The Hindu Business Line Boasting a determined political leadership, Kerala has set a record of sorts in flattening the Covid-19 curve On January 18, KK Shailaja — “Shailaja teacher”, as she is popularly known for her no-nonsense, science teacher demeanour — summoned a meeting of the Kerala health department, a ministry she had efficiently steered through unprecedented floods in 2018-19 and the outbreak of Nipah virus. There was no cause for alarm...
More »As schools switch to online classes, students from weaker sections get cut off from learning -Abha Goradia
-The Indian Express Amid the lockdown, Vaishali, whose parents are construction workers, has been living out of a half-built construction site in Tilak Nagar. Mumbai: A couple of days ago, a teary-eyed Vaishali, a student of class VI at Maharashtra Aikyavardhak Mandal in Tilak Nagar, called her school teacher Sangita Patil. Amid the lockdown, Vaishali, whose parents are construction workers, has been living out of a half-built construction site in Tilak Nagar. “She...
More »Kerala's Citizen-First Approach To Fighting COVID-19 -Isaac Thomas Isaac
-NDTV "Social Unity amid Physical Distancing" is the slogan of Kerala in the war against COVID-19. It was coined after some elements began to use measures for social distancing to justify caste pollution distance norms. Kerala is harnessing its abundant social capital to overcome the limited fiscal space in which state governments are forced to operate in quasi-federal India. Led by a state government with commitment and the actualization of synergies...
More »Reality of Reforms: Education policy and a Bihar college -Shreya Roy Chowdhury
-Career360.com BEGUSARAI, BIHAR: Ganesh Dutt College in Begusarai, Bihar, offers a paper on gender economics as part of the postgraduate economics programme. It will enrol students, suggest books, conduct internal tests and assess them. It just won’t teach it in class. Students opting for it are on their own. This is not how the economics department wants to run things. But it has 960 undergraduate and postgraduate students and three teachers, who...
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