We have not abandoned purely student demands, but the best way to bring the university into question is to intensify the workers’ movement. – Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Jean-Pierre Duteuil, March 22nd Movement, 1968 It was towards the end of 2012…
In the context of the recently introduced Four Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP) in the University of Delhi for the academic year 2013–14, it has become imperative to make an attempt to analyse critically the rationale behind such a measure which…
No academic restructuring in Delhi University (DU) has left the largest section of its teachers feeling as embittered, alienated and worried as the Four Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP). Teachers thronged the Special General Body Meeting of the Delhi University Teachers’…
The educational ‘reforms’ we are witnessing today in India are usually attributed to the changing requirements of the economic system. This is no doubt true, but in addition they are also meant to serve the needs of the new ‘Ideological…
K.S. Krishnaswamy who passed away in June this year [2013] was an outstanding economist who, along with his contemporaries I.G. Patel and K.N. Raj, formed the core of the group of economists that succeeded the earlier trio of V.K.R.V. Rao,…
Kunwar Muhammad Ashraf was an outstanding Marxist intellectual who died in 1962. An active participant in the anti-colonial struggle, he was a member of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), and served as Secretary to both Maulana Azad and Jawaharlal…
As we see religions now, they appear to be organised systems of belief and practice, with an emphasis on some form of afterlife. In general, they claim to derive their authority from what their followers hold to be texts or…
The Wahabis or, as they preferred to identify themselves, Ahle Hadis, followers of Saiyid Ahmad Bareilvi, are portrayed by K.M. Ashraf as playing a decisive role in organising the 1857 uprising of sepoys. They are given credit for being armed…
That the Internet has changed the way news is gathered, processed and delivered can no longer be denied. But a question that is increasingly posed is whether news as business is fundamentally threatened as a result, or, as some argue,…
Sustainable development is taken to mean meeting the needs of today without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. Unsustainable development compromises the land and her riches, and future generations meet their needs with unpredictable State apparatus. …