Today, the Hindustan Times has published an article titled "How the NDA is systematically denying minorities their rights" in which the authors, owing allegiance to the Congress party, make several claims trying to prove that the Modi Government is actually denying the benefits of many of the schemes that exist for minorities. If one were... Continue Reading →
Amendment to Article 15 of the Constitution
In order to further the cause of #Core2 and #Core3, here is a proposed amendment to the Constitution of India. The PDF version is available constitutional-amendment-article-15-draft. ============================================================================ THE CONSTITUTION (ONE HUNDRED AND XXXXXX AMENDMENT) BILL, 2017 A BILL further to amend the Constitution. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-eighth Year of the Republic... Continue Reading →
Article 30 in truly secular India
A draft Constitutional Amendment Bill to set right Article 30. Yes, I live in la la land.
The Quality of our College Teachers
Please read this previous related piece on the National Eligibility Test (NET) for context. In order to become an Assistant Professor or a Junior Research Fellow in any of our Universities or Colleges, an individual MUST *qualify* in the NET. Even the IITs must consider the NET in order to recruit Professors. Structure of NET... Continue Reading →
NET: Is lower threshold for OBC really needed?
Thanks to @realitycheckind on Twitter, the topic of the recent notification by UGC on the issue of cut-off percentages for "Qualifying" in the National Eligibility Test came up. This test allows candidates to apply for the posts of Assistant Professor and/or Junior Research Fellowship in various Universities and Colleges in the country I am sincerely hoping... Continue Reading →
Five questions on Article 15(5)
An attempt to raise some questions on the nature of Article 15(5) brought in by the 93rd amendment. Some of the questions may have already been raised, argued and answered already. A little repetition doesn't harm, IMHO 🙂 Article 15(5) Nothing in this article or in sub-clause (g) of clause (1) of article 19 shall... Continue Reading →
New Livestock Rules: Background and Intent
Background: In 2014, a PIL was filed in the Supreme Court by animal rights activist Gauri Maulekhi asking the Court to direct the Government of India and various border states of India to take steps to prevent illegal trafficking of cattle to Nepal. Large scale trafficking of cattle to Nepal was taking place for sacrifice... Continue Reading →
Divorce Rates – Census 2011
Today noted Bollywood lyricist Javed Akhtar in a tweet claimed that as per Census 2011, the divorce rate amongst Hindus was 0.76% and that of Muslims was only 0.53% A little search on Google reveals that the All India Muslim Personal Law Board is also making similar claims about divorce rates being lower than Hindus,... Continue Reading →
NEP 2016: The Myth of Saffronisation
In April 2016, the TSR Subramanian Committee submitted its report on the New Education Policy (NEP) to the MHRD. Since then, there has been a steady stream of criticism of the report, most of which claim the report to be an attempt at "saffronisation of Indian education". Since the submission of the report, the Cabinet minister... Continue Reading →
The Basis for No-detention in RTE?
The RTE Act mandates 'no-detention' policy for all students up to Grade 8. This policy is also known as the 'social promotion' policy as against 'grade-retention' followed otherwise. A brief description of the two are as follows. Social Promotion: is the practice of promoting a student (usually a general education student, rather than a special education... Continue Reading →
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