Education

Outlook

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• Interview: The Great American Campus Dilemma: Satish Padmanabhan of Outlook raised a few questions in an email exchange with Saikat Majumdar, Ashoka University professor and former faculty at Stanford |Outlook, July 11, 2025|
• What is Business IQ? Business IQ Not Singular But A Complex Set Of Intelligences November 01, 2023
• Political Seepage In Higher Education And Its Impact On Liberal Society September 03, 2023
• When Science Meets Arts June 29, 2023
• Interpersonal Intelligence Is Key To Human Resource Management And Every Aspect Of Corporate Life October 14, 2022

• What Will The Common Entrance Test Mean For Students And Central Universities? March 23, 2022

• The Future of Universities: Can India Overcome The Digital Divide? January 15, 2022

• What Is The Future Of The Liberal Arts In Asia? January 1, 2022

• Read between the university rankings
  September 27, 2021

• Learning Among Fear and Suspicion
  August 18, 2021

• Will Migrant Students Continue to Face Covid Racism?
  July 28, 2021

• What will the Cancellation of Board Exams Mean for College and Beyond?
  July 12, 2021

• Teachers Who Did Not Get Enough Time to Teach, Just Enough To Die
  June 23, 2021

• A Plea For Humane, Pandemic-Sensitive Schools
  May 17, 2021

  The Child-Soldiers of Protest
  March 6, 2021
• How 2020 Took Away Childhood From The Nation’s Poorest And Most Vulnerable Children
  December 30, 2020
• A Reduced CBSE Syllabus: Boon Or Bane For Students?
  December 4, 2020
• What Would The Presidential Election Results Mean For US Higher Education?
  October 29, 2020
• Do We Need A New Value-System For Professional Survival In A Post-Pandemic World?
  October 14, 2020
• What is the future of the American Ph.D?
  September 30, 2020
• The inequitable labours of the Pandemic
  September 9, 2020
• The Falling Fall: Terrifying Choices Facing A College Semester Amid Covid-19 Pandemic
  August 10, 2020
• The Entirety Of Success Of National Education Policy Depends On Research Excellence By Faculty
  August 6, 2020
• When Campus Is Safer Than Home: Is It Time Universities Bring Back Vulnerable Students?
  July 28, 2020
• Revocation Of Immigration Rules May Not End Victimisation Of Foreign Students In US
  July 17, 2020
• Who Is Responsible If People Die From Coronavirus On A Reopened Campus?
  June 20, 2020
• Indian Universities In Post-Covid Crisis Landscape: The Way Forward
  June 4, 2020
• How COVID-19 Has Affected US University Campuses, And What The Fall Semester Looks Like
  May 26, 2020
• Not US, UK Or Europe, Why Student Traffic Will Now Shift To Locations In East Asia
  May 25, 2020
• A Primer For The Pandemic: How Can Students Survive And Thrive During COVID-19 Crisis
  April 20, 2020
• Still, Faded Chalk On Blackboards
  April 13, 2020
• Coronavirus Pandemic: Is Future of International Study and Academic Careers Under Threat?
  April 1, 2020
• Will Students Survive The Corona-shaped Hole In Their Careers?
  March 27, 2020
• The Viral Learning Curve- Universities and Classes in the Time of Corona
  March 21, 2020
• The Holistic New Age College Admission
  March 10, 2020
• Opinion: Vocationalisation, Digitization, Globalisation Laudable But Not At Cost Of Our Public Universities
  February 24, 2020
• Caste Out of Campus: Apartheid Methods Of Public Classification Lead To Prejudice
  February 13, 2020
• Needed: Fair And Practical Guidelines On Student Activism In Universities
  January 29, 2020
• A New Brotherhood: Two Hues Of India’s Saffron
  January 13, 2020
• JNU Attack Is Brutal Act Against Reason By Majoritarian Government
  January 6, 2020
• A Cop, A Rose And A Blush Of Shame
  December 24, 2019
• When Did Our Students Become Criminals?
  December 18, 2019
• The American School Century
  July 9, 2018

The Hindu

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• What is Common Sense?
  December 21, 2019
• Liberal Arts or Artscience?
  July 14, 2018
• Enhance the learning experience
  May 21, 2018
• The T-shaped student
  April 21, 2018
• “Engage with the world,” Interview conducted by Spatika Narayan,
  March 18, 2018
• Education is more than just consumption of knowledge, Interview conducted by Anjum Hasan
  January 13, 2018
• Reimagining intelligence in the Classroom
  October 6, 2016
  A Passionate Marriage of Disparate Disciplines
  October 9, 2014

The Times Higher Education

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Opinion: Political attacks on social science open the way to tech dystopia: In the later second and early third decades of the 21st century, as vast stretches of the world have elected illiberal regimes led by populist autocrats and near-dictators, the connections between academic research and policy decisions have largely withered. |Times Higher Education, February 23rd, 2026|

Opinion: A university-hatched bomb plot raises explosive questions for Indian HE : Last month’s deadly car bombing at Delhi’s Red Fort, allegedly planned and perpetrated by academics and doctors, has left observers asking what such an outrage says about the nature, quality and future of the country’s universities | Times Higher Education, December 16, 2025|

Opinion: Can academic freedom survive in the new age of hard power: A world dominated by hard power might ultimately be one in which academic freedom ceases to be a factor in the prestige and reputation of universities |Times Higher Education, November 17, 2025|

Opinion: Will AI be the death of liberal arts in Asia?-Will liberal arts education emerge with a still-beating heart from the worldwide onslaught that has been unleashed on it – and on other cornerstones of traditional liberal democracy – by populist dictators? |Times Higher Education. July 14, 2025|

• This is probably the worst time in history to lose faith in universities– Saikat Majumdar writes about the clever stimulation of popular resentment against the perceived elitism of higher education leaving only the masses to the mercy of oligarchs who have aced the populism game.| Times Higher Education, April 17, 2025|
• Can India’s elite privates meet the demand for high-quality education? January 22, 2025
• Will the global culture wars save the humanities or destroy them?. February 29, 2024
• India’s lack of research universities hinders its academic freedom. October 2, 2023
• India’s branch campus plans may not germinate without seed funding | Times Higher Education (THE) January 20, 2023
• Indigenous models of liberal arts should beware of ethnic chauvinism | Times Higher Education (THE) July 29, 2022
• Is the honeymoon period over for liberal arts in Asia?
  November 25, 2021
• Interview with Saikat Majumdar
  September 2, 2021
• Is STEM growth really stunting the humanities?
  August 19, 2021
• What are academics looking forward to about returning to campus?
  April 29, 2021
• Caste discrimination is a global problem. January 7, 2021
• India’s Ranking Decline is a Timely Wake-up Call
  September 14, 2019
• India Makes a Welcome Turn to the Liberal Arts
  June 24, 2019
• The Crisis of Humanities is a Western Phenomenon
  February 7, 2019
• A Brief History of the Modern Indian University
  November 24, 2018
• The Battle for the Indian Mind
  May 5, 2018

The Indian Express

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• In campus deaths, a warning: Residential education can be empowering, but its risks need hard reckoning February 24, 2025
• Higher education and training are beacons of hope for young Indians. But what safety do they guarantee?, August 23, 2024
• Current suspicion of higher education in US may outstay Trump
  November 10, 2020
• Ironies and Barricades: How between JNU and BHU, we see the brutal distance that separates us as a nation
  November 22, 2019
• The Liberal Professional
  June 7, 2019

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• Higher Education: View from the classroom: Writer Saikat Majumdar on teaching narrative intelligence in the age of AI; To get the most out of AI, human beings must learn to become efficient, innovative and ethical co-workers. |Scroll, February 14, 2026|
• Opinion: While Trump government is attacking universities, China is fostering higher education, March 30, 2025
• Opinion: Humanities education in a post-truth world: Commencement Lecture given at the Jindal School of Languages and Literature, OP Jindal Global University , August 17, 2024
• With Indian liberals under attack, the idea of the free-thinking university is under threat
  January 12, 2019
• Why a liberal arts education should not (and does not) exclude the sciences
  December 14, 2017
• The Liberal Art of DissentNovember 9, 2015 

• The Trinity in the American University 
  September 11, 2016
• Why Indian Techies Need Crash Courses in Liberal Arts
  October 7, 2015
• Indian Universities Must Push Knowledge as an End in Itself
  November 2, 2014