Of Quality, Capacity and Job Security: 25% EWS Reservation Holds Answers for Schooling Post-Lockdown
There is a lot of uncertainty over how schooling will look like post-lockdown. Can schools run full scale? Will learning happen through TV and/or...
From Moodle to Canvas: Red Flags in India’s Learning Management Systems
In a recent incident at Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), students complained of harassment by proctors after their exams were conducted online...
Stories from Beggar’s Home: How the Bombay Prevention of Begging Act Of 1959 Criminalises...
To address the issue of begging in India justly, a new government vocabulary and responsibility surrounding destitution needs to be developed.
Out of the Woods: How the FRA Is Helping a Village in Maharashtra During...
This is not what a haat or a weekly market should look like: the place is not bustling with people buying and selling produce,...
On the Road: Tracing the Current Patterns of Fishworkers’ Migration in India
This piece is the second instalment of a two-part series 'On the Road' by Madhuri Mondal on how fishworkers have migrated in the past,...
How Community-Based Learning Supports Students and Families in the Long Run
“During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, there was complete uncertainty about colleges reopening and the kind of future I would have,” recalls Dhanashree Madigalekar, a...
Caged and Cramped Animals, Pandemic-Hit Revenues: Why Does India Still Have Zoos?
When animals’ lives are compromised in poorly monitored zoos, why does India continue to operate them?
The COVID-19 Crisis Should Make Us Rethink Our Prejudices Against Basic Income Transfers
Albeit indefinite, the coronavirus-induced (paid) stay-at-home orders are temporary for many privileged citizens. But, for masses of India’s working population, this nagging sense of...
The Long Run: What Happens to the LDF’s Education Model From Here?
What implications does the LDF’s ‘model development’ have on education and spending for whichever alliance inherits the reins of the state?
The Story of CoWIN: How A Vaccination Strategy for Digital India Failed to Bridge...
Why was a wholly digital platform like CoWIN—one that is largely accessible to the technology-owning elite—used for mass vaccine registration?
