Much love for the hate industry

People who spit venom on social media have a huge following and many of them are even considered online stars Last week a man, Shubham Mishra, was arrested by Vadodara police for threatening to rape standup comic Agrima Joshua. He had posted a video on social media which was supposed to be a “warning” against […]

Online exams a failure

Delhi University’s online mock exams are a disaster, students claim In June, Delhi University announced open book online exams for its final semester students. As the move was opposed by students and teachers alike, human resource development minister Ramesh Pokhriyal, on June 24, asked the University Grants Commission to revisit its guidelines for online exams. […]

No shoppers, no jobs

Sarojini Nagar workers’ plight shows how Covid has wrecked Delhi’s popular flea market The very day prime minister Narendra Modi announced the coronavirus lockdown in March, Ankit Sahu, 22, was laid off. Ankit worked as a salesman in a shop selling women’s clothes in Sarojini Nagar, one of Delhi’s most popular flea markets. He got […]

Reincarnation of the ‘Iron Lady’?

Priyanka Gandhi is trying to portray herself as the true successor of the ‘Iron Lady’ of India — Indira Gandhi. Is it enough to harp about the past to secure a better future for the Congress party? India’s grand old party is in trouble. The debacle in the general elections, followed by the loss of […]

Silence at Saheen Bagh

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 […]

Devaluation of education

Can Indian universities ask students to take exams when they have barely taught them? When the Coronavirus pandemic hit India, educational institutions were among the first public spaces to be closed to contain the spread of the virus. While exams for first and second year college students were cancelled, the question of conducting final year […]

The education factor

Most Nepalese students are well adjusted in India and will keep coming, the bigger deterrent for female students being ragging. People to people contact still endures Richa Karki called India ‘home’ for most of her life. She first arrived in India’s Kalimpong from Nepal’s Kathmandu to join school in the 1st grade. “I spent so […]

Event of the Week

Israel connect  What: Featuring the works of two leading contemporary artists from Israel, Dani Karavan and Atar Geva, an online exhibition brings together their work in a show titled ‘Plain Abstract’. They met at Givat Haviva (non-profit education centre founded in 1949) in its home for art, the GH Art Gallery. Growing into and out […]