-The Financial Express Lots of work ahead to make RTE work The reasons behind the poor performance of Schools students in India are slowly being whittled down from a whole range of reasons (low attendance, high drop-out rate, lack of teachers, lack of adequate number of Schools, etc) to just a few key areas that need a lot of work. The most pressing need seems to be the paucity of trained and...
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Politicians play censor, political cartoons scrapped from textbooks
-PTI Cartoons making fun of leaders like BR Ambedkar finding their way into textbooks came under all-round attack in Lok Sabha on Monday, prompting government to promise an inquiry into the role of NCERT officials and ensure there are no recurrences. Members cutting across party lines expressed concern over such material in School textbooks with BJP and TDP utilising the occasion to demand HRD Minister Kapil Sibal's resignation. Most of the members...
More »Girls scrub loos in Karnataka government School-K Ranganath
-The Times of India SIDLAGHATTA: That the girl child is stereotyped is nothing new. But this School in Sidlaghatta, 60 km from Kolar, took it to another level with its girl students. The School does not have a group D employee to do the regular cleaning. So the girls in the School clean the toilets, among other things, after their classes. Ironically, the Higher Primary School at Ammaganahalli won the 'Best School...
More »Everyone forgot the snail-EP Unny
-The Indian Express After retrospective taxes, here comes the retroactive cartoon The no-no cartoon was published in Shankar’s Weekly on August 28, 1949 and reproduced in many Shankar collections, including one with a Nehru quote as title that will make his party men squirm today — “Don’t spare me Shankar”. The Congress government has pulled out the cartoon and the textbook that carried it. The cartoon features Nehru himself, standing behind a...
More »60-yr-old Ambedkar cartoon halts Parliament, minister says sorry
-The Hindustan Times A cartoon on BR Ambedkar in a government Schoolbook rocked Parliament on Friday, forcing HRD minister Kapil Sibal to apologise to the nation and order the removal of the “objectionable” caricature. The row over the cartoon — more than 60 years old — sidetracked the ongoing controversy over the Aircel-Maxis deal, which the BJP and other Opposition parties have been using to target home minister P Chidambaram. Instead, members cutting across...
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