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12 Apr 2009
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| Editorial: Can We Ever Rescue Education? |
Editorial: Can We Ever Rescue Education?
The colonization of India led to intrusion of western institution in the society, which furthered the creation of an intellectual ambience wherein the policy makers considered westernization of the Indian society as a legitimate goal. The intellectual-structural arrangement under the colonial education system was to facilitate the project to coloni...
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| Looking Beyond Mumbai 26/11: Part II |
Looking Beyond Mumbai 26 / 11: Part II
 We must understand that the jihadis have an ambitious goal of establishing a trans-Asian Caliphate from Indonesia to the Balkans via Malayasia, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and West Asia for capturing Europe, now being called Eurabia because of its terminal demographic decline. It is time to recall how immediately before and after July 7, 200...
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| Uncovered Backwardness of India's Muslims: Part II |
Uncovered Backwardness of India’s Muslims: Part II
India's population is predominantly rural. In 2001 only 27.8% lived in urban areas, cities and towns of various sizes, showing a low degree of urbanization. Moreover, the tempo of urbanization has been quite low after 1981, with only about two percentage points rise in the share of the urban population over each decade. The Muslim population is als...
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| Western Hold on Indian Academia |
Western Hold on Indian Academia
 The issue of education dominated the concerns of the nationalist leaders right from the onset of the national movement. In fact the concerns about the content, system and direction of education constituted one of the core ideological issues. Indigenous system of imparting education was sought to be replaced by a system enunciated by Macaulay seeking to colonise Indian minds. The end of colonial rule did not end the system but it was further supplemented by Marxism and a kind of secularist discourse, which was located in the framework of O...
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| A Report: Shiksha Bachao Andolan | A Report: Shiksha Bachao Andolan
Shiksha Bachao Andolan is active in the field of education seeking to remove distortion from the curriculum and to replace the existing system of education with a system which is inspired by civilizational perspective. Since its inception, the movement has been able to galvanise a large number of educationists, intellectuals, teachers and activists organizing them into actions ranging from intellectual to mass protests. The movement has been ever growing with increasing support from various sections of the society on the issues related to educa...
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| Education and Politics | Education and Politics
 Discuss just few numbers of the Indian education system, particularly its expansion; any expert from outside India (China being the only exception) would be bewildered. When the Constitution of India mandated that the state shall provide free and compulsory education to all children till they attain 14 years of age, it was indeed a very bold postulate. India at that stage stood at literacy rate of around 20. Today, its population is more than three times and, as official figures claim that access to education has crossed 98 per cent mark! The ...
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