According to official figures, the estimated number of people who took a dip in the river at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, which concluded on 26 February, is 66 crore. The Uttar Pradesh government ...

Behind this political theatre of land auctions lies a deeper story of ecological belonging and the unmaking of non-human communities through displacement from their habitats, and their inability to ...

Academics have observed that university matters pertaining to faculty and vice chancellors, syllabi, appointments and terminations have increasingly become politically motivated (Sundar 2024). The ...

This unprecedented move disrupted the academic calendar and destabilised the hopes and imagined futures of millions of students. The cancellation of this key “rite of passage” introduced widespread ...

There is a lack of inclusive and equitable quality education in India. Due to socio-economic disparities and gender-based discrimination, children are struggling with basic literacy and numeracy ...

This paper studies the extent of teacher’s in-group bias in occupational expectations and grading on the basis of student’s caste and socio-economic status. The paper adopts an experimental approach ...

In developing countries, rural households often rely on solid fuels for cooking, heating, and lighting, with women and children typically collecting these fuels from forests, their own land, and ...

Using the National Statistical Office’s Time Use Survey 2019, it is found that tertiary-educated mothers devote 159 more minutes weekly to childcare than non-literate mothers. While existing research ...

Primary education, of acceptable quality, creates the base. Equal opportunities, along with universal access, in school education are critical, but access without quality is no access. Higher ...

But women poets existed in the Urdu literary sphere, leading lives vibrant enough to be recorded in antho­logies. Farhat Hasan’s Voices in Verses: Women’s Poetry and Cultural Memory in Nineteenth ...

For India, this presents a foundational strategic challenge. While the impulse to pursue a full-scale de-dollarisation—an active strategy to replace the dollar—is understandable, the wiser path is ...

It is, therefore, a major policy strength as well as a step forward that the third educational policy of independent India, the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, coming 34 years after the second ...