Due to the Coronavirus pandemic: Low-cost private schools and Montessori schools struggle to keep afloat having to revamp their operations to suit the online mode of learning Chandrakant Singh runs Ideal Radiant Public School, a low-cost middle school in Delhi’s Uttam Nagar. He started this school 20 years ago as an educator with a vision […]

[…]

Is the storied movement against the citizenship law on pause or has the Coronavirus crisis ended it?  Last December, a group of Muslim women began occupying a patch of street at Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, registering their protest against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens. The sit-in protest made national headlines […]

[…]

How do Class 12 students feel about the cancellation of board exams? While some expressed discontent with the decision, others feel it was for the best Taking cognisance of the rapid increase in Coronavirus cases, the CBSE and ICSE boards announced on Thursday that the exams scheduled in July for Classes 10 and 12 would […]

[…]

For Kashmir’s students, lockdown adds to the misery. Save for a few weeks, schools and colleges have been shut since last August, and internet restrictions make online learning hard Kashmiris are living in a lockdown within a lockdown. They were put under curfew and a total communications blackout as the Indian government dismantled the region’s autonomy last […]

[…]

For large numbers of Indian students, attending classes on the Internet is both exasperating and exclusionary, due to connectivity issues Deepak Kumar Gupta is a visually impaired student at Delhi University. Of late, he has been busy petitioning the vice-chancellor against online classes and examinations. Why? He believes they are discriminatory to large segments of […]

[…]