Indian children from disadvantaged backgrounds are still discriminated against when it comes to education. In India, the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE Act) came into being in 2009 and became effective from April 2010....
It appears the BJP government in India has taken a decision to crush all opponents. In India, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ideological parent, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, do not have much faith in democracy. For this reason, they try to...
T.R. Vivek travels upstream of Cauvery in search of a solution to India’s oldest and most bitter water dispute. At slightly under 800 kilometers, the Cauvery is the smallest of India’s major rivers. But it is the subject of the oldest and the...
IIT Gandhinagar offers some key lessons for tackling the acute crisis in India’s higher education system. Readers must know at the outset that this author teaches at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN). Furthermore, this author...
It is typically characteristic of Indian posturing and narrative to take a moral high-ground vis-à-vis Pakistan’s non-secular existence. With the spate of violent protests in Kashmir and Pakistan’s allegations of human rights violations and...
