ThinkPieces

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The Importance of Sanskrit in Indian Education

This is Part I of two-part series on Sanskrit in Indian Education. To read part II, please click here. Reality-Check […]

Indian Medical Textbooks: Racist Overtones?

TW: This article discusses anti-black racism and draws on texts containing racial slurs. Through a conversation with an MBBS […]

Education in Crisis: Nepal’s educational sector in the pandemic

On 24 March 2020, the Nepalese government decided to impose its first blanket lockdown across the nation amidst concerns of rapidly increasing […]

New Challenges to Education in Post-Covid19 Nepal

COVID19 has disrupted education provision globally. With school closure, most national governments introduced new ways of continuing school education, including […]

The Implications of ‘Mother Tongue Education’: India’s National Education Policy 2020

According to linguist anthropologist Chaise LaDousa, “the ‘mother tongue’ emerges as something to be upheld and praised as Indian in […]

Delhi’s Happiness Curriculum: The New ‘Science’ of Self-Discipline?

“One incident I can’t forget is when a girl told me about how the happiness classes had given her peace […]