Corporal Punishment: Negative Mindset Disastrous
An act of violence begets violence and corporal punishment is precisely that which is enforced on a young child at a tender age.
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The curious case of the Election Commission
The Election Commission must always follow a certain conduct that ensures transparency and credibility of the institution.
Why evidence-based decision making is the need of the hour in India
Evidence-based decisions and policy are, without doubt, the need of the hour, and denying it is pushing India to its doom.
Covid-19 Crisis: Public Primary Healthcare System
The current pandemic that our country is struggling to deal with underscores this scenario, wherein an early detection followed by timely treatment would mitigate the consequences.
The Pasta fetish and the Macaroni reality
It is not the pasta that you are eating, rather it is a failed system that is continuing to eat you!!
Teachers, Stop Teaching How To Write Answers
This spirit of education gets broken each time students are asked to not let their mind wander and stick to the questions given at the end of the chapter.
Amma Vodi: An Edu-Policy Experiment in India
The first big change was the start of the National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education (NP-NSPE), shortly known as the ‘Mid-Day meal scheme’ in 1995. By 2001, with Supreme Court directing all government and government-aided primary schools to implement this, it reached every primary school in India.
Behaviour over Capital Punishment
Warden Duffy adds in the 187th Law Commission of India Report (2003) that the experience of execution for a prisoner is harrowing because there are times when his neck is not broken but strangles to death. The eye pops out of his head; tongue swells and protrudes from his mouth, neck prolly broken and the rope takes the large portion from his skin along with the flesh.
Role of the State in Development
After the independence, India’s economic growth was mostly regulated by socialist-influenced initiatives, state-owned enterprises, red tape and lopsided supervision, collectively recognised as the “License Raj” that led the nation and its people disconnected from the global market.
Why we need to challenge orthodoxy in Indian Education?
Some might argue that the status quo must be maintained because a society which ‘questions too much’ becomes embroiled in dissent and chaos.
What’s up with the elections in South, “National Television Media”?
To understand the realities of election coverage, we need to look at some of the realities associated with the “National Television Media”.
The Bengal Election 2021: Cultural Identity Vs. Fascist Autocracy
Needless to mention that, this assembly election of Bengal is one of the most discussed elections in the history of Bengal, and it is not anymore a secret that, since 2019, BJP had always tried to capture Bengal.
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