-The Times of India   In less than a fortnight since the government notified rules under Right To Education (RTE) Act 2009, hundreds of students started a postcard campaign on Tuesday highlighting various ways in which schools are flouting the norms. Addressed to the Chief Justice of Delhi high court, the postcards brought to light the unfavourable conditions prevalent in government and MCD run schools. The first day of the campaign was conducted...

The scheme seeks to add a superstructure of digital empowerment without laying an adequate foundation Until recently, S. Dhibeka, 16, who had never used a computer until she chose the computer science stream last year at the aging, leafy Kakkalur Government Higher Secondary School near Chennai, could practise programming for only an hour or two a week, often sharing a desktop computer with one or more of her classmates. But since September,...

-The Times of India   Apart from Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Goa was the only other state or union territory not to provide information to the Union government on the status of implementation of the facilities required under the Right to Education Act in March this year. The Union human resource development ministry sought information from all 35 states and union territories in March on the measures implemented and facilities put in place...

-IANS   Azamgarh (Uttar Pradesh), Nov 30 (IANS) They wanted their children to get good quality education which they were bereft of. So people in a small village of Uttar Pradesh funded a bridge to send their kids to study in a town across the river. The number of students has been increasing in schools, colleges and madrassas on the other side of the Kunwar river in Saraimeer town, which has several educational...

A.K. Ramanujan, while referring to the diversity and apparently contradictory element of unity in the Indian traditions, refers to an Irish joke about whether to classify trousers as singular or plural: singular from the top, plural from the bottom.1 A Concurrent Discipline Course in the University of Delhi for Second Year Honours students not doing History was introduced in 2005 on ‘Culture in India—Ancient’, and had sought to very sensitively...