Writings on Education

Outlook

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• 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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• 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
• 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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• 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
• The Liberal Art of Dissent
  November 9, 2015 For The Scroll

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• 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

Hindustan Times

• 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

Other

• India’s Peter Pans: The Private Lives of Teachers, The Telegraph, Sept 22, 2022
• Three Guineas and a plea to endow a college, Ashoka  Bulletin
• “College, Truncated” The Telegraph, April 5, 2021
• “When God is on Your Curriculum, He’s Present Everywhere and Visible Nowhere”, The Wire, March 13, 2021
• An interview with Daily Star, December 5, 2020
• “New divisions: The cruel virtual interior” The Telegraph, December 28, 2020.
• “The illiberal arts,” The Telegraph, September 29, 2016.
• “Let there be no partition: universities must not wall themselves off from public consciousness.” The Times of India, Op-Ed., March 3, 2016.