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...
The Letter of the Law: For the People and Of the People?
Co-authored Avantika Bunga and Swini Khara
"The summum bonum of the aforesaid discussion is that all the aforesaid material which existed before the learned Executing...
The Bastion Dialogues: Dr. Uma Maheshwari Chimirala
Interviewed by Ayush Jain on 11th March 2019
This week, The Bastion’s Ayush Jain delved deep into the Eklavya Model Residential School (EMRS) system. Set...
The 2019 National Education Policy Must Enable Girls’ Right to Education
Written by Evita Rodrigues
Research by Tanvi Mehta
The potential of education to empower often goes unrecognized. It is a tool capable of empowering women to...
Towards Inclusive Private Schooling
During this lockdown, few private schools have hiked their fee for the current academic year. As a result, various state governments have issued guidelines...
Empowering Parents To Demand Better Of Their Child’s Education
Without improving parental engagement, Indian education will lack accountability and deliver poor education under the facade of quality and equity.
Trapped! How our education system makes and breaks learning traps
This article is the second instalment of a two-part series on why learning traps ensnare children in cycles of poor academic performances, and what...
Inclusion of the Margins – Primary and Secondary Education for the Disabled in India
In 1995, the Indian legislature passed the Persons with Disabilities Act (PwD), ushering in a new conception of institutional support for children with disabilities....
Dalit Women Learn Differently: Experiences In Educational Institutions
Written by Pragya Roy | This article was originally published on Feminism in India and has been reproduced on The Bastion with full permission.
In recent years, an unprecedented...
What Our Textbooks Aren’t Telling Us About Caste in India
Alongside other spheres of influence, our history and political science textbooks mislead our youth into believing that caste is not a pressing issue.
