Author: adm01
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The Lost Spirit of Sankranti
Winters in India are magical. The cool warm sun that soothes the mind and body after months of harsh burning sun. The magic only gets better as you move from the bustling noisy towns and cities to the villages. A sweet pain chokes within me, as I fondly recollect my winter vacation as a child…
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Conspiracy to Push English Education Away
Recently, for some time now, we have been witnessing unnecessary debates being raised around the medium of education. We are seeing suggestions that the English education system in India is a symbol of Macaulay’s slavery and that we must come out of this so-called bondage. How should this be understood? Should this be seen as…
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Equal Education Campaign is the Need of the Hour
Today, education remains one of the starkest arenas of systemic inequality. Our children, the future of our country, are being subjected to enormous inequality in terms of quality of education being imparted in government schools. For most, education still remains the only means to progress and live a dignified human life. Inequality present in this…
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Constitution Day
The Constitution of India is an interesting document! Some Indians put it on a pedestal higher than God and almost worship it while many others despise it, as if it’s a curse of a demon god. How and why does this book attract such extreme reverence and contempt at the same time, from the people…
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National Teacher’s Day
English Education, Macaulay, and Savitribai Phule: A PerspectiveOn 17 November 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while addressing an audience steeped in Western education in the English language, stated that “Western education carries a slave mentality.” He then traced the roots of this alleged slavery to Macaulay’s education policy of 1835, which, according to him, launched…
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Equality in Diversity
Unity in Diversity’ is the phrase that we have been hearing since our childhood. Numerous programmes and activities are carried out by government and non- government agencies to emphasize the need of unity in our diverse country. I have been always perplexed with a persistent question in my mind. Can there be unity in a…
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