education
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Macaulay, English, and the Myth of Colonial Liberation
X.T.M rebuts the claim that criticising Macaulay and English harms Dalit, Shudra and Adivasi mobility, arguing that adapting to a colonial system is not vindication of it and that Macaulay…
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Macaulay, Macaulayputras, and their discontents
Omar Ali pastes an X exchange on Thomas Macaulay with Sadanand Dhume and other users. He argues that schooling in Indian languages would have served India better than English-medium education,…
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The Broken Compact
The author argues that the incremental Indian and American Dream, in which education and merit lead to mobility, has expired for a generation. He sees a new South Asian left…
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Quite Hectic Days
Writing from fieldwork assessing the governance of 46 Pakistani universities, the author notes that universities grew from 95 to 269 and PhDs from 177 to 3,489 since 2002 without a…
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Podcast explores advances in gender equality in India
X.T.M recommends a podcast on grassroots progress on gender equality in rural Bihar, then reflects as a Bahá’í on how the faith might suit Dharmic backgrounds and how Christianity has…
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The Laughing Buddha
A short story about a Brahmin priest’s couple from Dakshina Kannada who move to Bangalore and then back to their village for their son’s education and heritage, following the family…
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American University in Delhi?
Responding to an op-ed urging India to admit foreign universities, the author notes the shortage of seats, then warns that India would import US pathologies in the sector, such as…
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About Brahmin Privilege: Education, Brits and Chitpavans
Nachiketa argues that crude comparisons of Brahmin privilege with white slave-owning ignore the concrete, caste-correlated privileges of wealth, education, connections and urban background, and examines educational attainment as an inherited…
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American Caste (b)
The author argues that America faces a national crisis in maths competence, citing 2018 PISA scores in which only 8 per cent of US students reached Level 5, against far…
