Guest Post By – Dr. Kaustav Bhattacharyya FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE IS RESTRICTED! The worst nightmare has come true; Britain has voted to leave the EU or what’s known in common parlance as the Brexit in a widely attended referendum with a turnout higher than national elections with roughly 72pc and the verdict in favour…
Category: Education
Teach philosophy and ethics at schools
Education jargon deteriorates progressively See what we speak often? Exams, marks, ranks and coaching centers etc. We speak often about schools, fees and shut-down of government primary schools, new and expensive private schools etc. There is a rise in selfishness, materialism, grabbing money and places through right or wrong means. Who are the culprits? The…
Reading through a book by the Nobel Prize winner – Svetlana Alexievich
A society must be bound by certain values Yes, what binds the Indian society today? Just now I am reading through a book by the Nobel Prize winner, Svetlana Alexievich, born in Ukraine, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. The latest book, The Secondhand Time: The last of the Soviets (Random House, 2016)….
Indian universities in distress
Who can reform the Indian higher education? You see, there are many sensitive issues in Indian education. What are the frontiers for individual freedom in India? The Supreme Court has ruled that the freedom of speech is limited to your boundaries for not to cause any defamation to your clients. There is a new tension…
What is happening to our education?
So many exams and entrance tests! Yet no substantial intellectual inputs NEET-I and II, ComedK and CET and many more! The Supreme Court is now actively engaged to untangle the issues and fix some critical questions. There are issues like PUC question papers leaks and the involvement of the police to fix the criminals. The…
Music and Education!
Arts, culture, music and cinema Culture is a complex word and concept. Modern culture basically means Western European culture Modern culture as it evolved in the late 18th and early 19th century, industrialized England. What the thinkers, writers, poets and critics led by Mathew Arnold is what I take here as examples. Arnold’s three classes,…
What is education?
When did it originate? Education is about freedom and making man a free individual Liberation of man from many bondages like customs, beliefs, traditions, not the least from the modern day political oppressions and recent times violence, terrorism and irrationalism of various kinds! Only education can free man from these man-made oppressions. I am not…
Higher education at the cross-roads
Have a vision and define your vision Universities define the image of a country and a society. Now, the Indian universities are caught in a trap as usual. The RSS and the BJP are said to be indulging in their pet trade. The RSS and the BJP are liberal and somewhat superficial forces of the…