The Child and the Curriculum: Two Ends of the Educational Process
Child and Curriculum are the two ends of school education as rethought by John Dewey
Theels
Theels are thoughts and feelings working together — a mode of expression that places emotion on equal footing with reason. This section publishes personal essays, philosophical reflections and opinion pieces that resist easy categorisation. If it makes you think and feel at the same time, it belongs here.
Songs of Resistance: Ambedkari Jalsa
The jalsas are the songs of the Dalits, which have the potential to usher in change and a revolution, which explains why some of their songs are sabotaged because regardless of who holds power in the country.
An open letter to everyone struggling with PCOS
I wanted to share my journey with you because I want you to know that you are not alone.
Bursting cracking on Diwali – A question of Tradition?
The IPCC’s sixth assessment report talks about the concentration of air pollutants increasing significantly over India, even if effective decarbonization techniques are implemented, the levels could not be brought down to levels advocated by the WHO.
A white line and a mosque
Why did the frontier-tourists secretly wish to imitate the coolies, walk right up to the twelve-inch white line and put their foot across it? What did it mean to go back home and say they had crossed over?
Listening for Well-Being: A Discourse for Democracy
I would like to make it clear at the outset that my objective is to engage with the ideas in the book, rather than providing a book review. I adopted a style to amalgamate sentences taken from the author and apply them to my own experience.
Can we tame the Infinity within us?
The Human body by its nature is perishable. It is bound by the Space-time coordinates in the world we inhabit. It comes into existence at a finite point in time and perishes at another finite point in time. Essentially it is a finite element in this world.
The Antagonism Between Truth and Politics
Lies are a hindrance to justice and pose a challenge to democracies all across the globe. Given the link between power and lies, especially in a multiparty system like India, does the solution lie in post-democratic ways of handling power?
Independence: What it Means to Me
There was a documentary film that used to be shown on Doordarshan in my school days. It was about unity in diversity, and had a catchy song “Ek, anek…Hind desh ke niwasi sabhi jane k hai. That was the time when this sentiment was entrenched in all our hearts. Our country has for ages, had…
The many avatars of English
A few years back, I had a student of mine writing an email to me, asking for a relaxation in the assignment deadline. He wrote to me Dear Mam, my return ticket was cancelled because my grandmother fell seek…’ In the class, I asked him to re-read this and he did not find any problem…
Why we Indians don’t really deserve many Olympic Medals?
The culture and personality school of thought in anthropology spearheaded by Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead strongly argues that the individuals’ personality in a society is determined by its culture.
Politics in two-dimensional charts with Nolan and Pournelle
The terms ‘left’ or ‘right’ have collected emotional weight through the education or growing up process of an individual.
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