As the news of Jawaharlal Nehru’s death spread through New Delhi, one of the people it reached was an American graduate student named Granville Austin who was writing a thesis on the making of the Indian constitution and thus had…
Madhuri Sharma, Indigenous and Western Medicine in Colonial India, Foundation Books, Delhi, 2012, 177 pages, Rs. 695/- Discourses on health and medicine in colonial India were never isolated. Rather, these often got intertwined with several other discourses on caste, class,…
The current issue of Social Scientist is devoted to a discussion of the Four Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP) introduced by Delhi University recently in lieu of its earlier three year programme, which had been long in existence and whose duration…
25 June 2013, New Delhi. Third US–India Higher Education Dialogue, co-chaired by US Secretary of State John Kerry and India’s Minister of Human Resource Development M.M. Pallam Raju. Apart from the senior policy makers and heads of regulatory bodies (e.g.…
The University of Delhi has been one of the premier institutions of postsecondary education in India for almost ninety years. Although it is named after the city in which it is located – a city renowned as a seat of…
In less than a week, as I write this [July 2013], some 60,000 students would be entering the University of Delhi as undergraduates. These young adults, coming from various regions of the country and with diverse academic and socio-economic backgrounds,…
Now that Delhi University’s controversial Four Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP) has been formally initiated, it is time for its principled critics to look ahead. But charting the course of the future – even the near future – requires us to…
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’…