Education
Democracy
Open letter to the Chief Justice of India
To:The Chief Justice of India,Supreme Court of India As a citizen of India, I write this letter to bring to your attention gross perversion of the laws of India, public institutions and Constitutional values. Five years of the BJP government have seen erosion of parliamentary procedures, citizens’ fundamental rights, including the independence of the press, […]
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Democracy
Human rights
AIKS supports A Long March of the Dispossessed
A meeting of the central office bearers of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) held in New Delhi yesterday decided to support the idea of a Long March of the Dispossessed to Delhi to demand a special session of Parliament called entirely to discuss the serious agrarian crisis in the country. This unprecedented agrarian crisis […]
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Democracy
Women's rights
The gender war: To take sides or not?
Rape apologist is a term I have become very familiar with it. Every time there is an outrage on social media with accusations of rape or harassment made against a man, my refusal to join in or my questioning of the e-lynchings is interpreted as supporting crimes against women. Thankfully, I’m not particularly dependent on […]
Read MoreThe Future of Education
The article “A new look at child abuse” details this kind of harm and I think it is worth reading to understand what exactly happens because of our schools other than marks and rote learning. And people not “in” on the vision are getting disenfranchised. Schools are simply creating templates of people with preinstalled data. It […]
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Democracy
Education
School Reloaded
This article takes off from the previous one exploring the natural rights of children that are abused casually. So here, I am looking at schools. Let me say upfront that I am not “designing an overhaul” and I don’t believe I should. Public services should always be designed by consensus, hopefully with some input or observation of […]
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