For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Kshirod Nag In contemporary India, education is increasingly understood through the language of employability, skill development and economic productivity. Schools and universities are judged by placement records, competitive examination outcomes and their ability to supply labour to the market. While these concerns are important in a modern economy, such a narrow understanding obscures a deeper …
N Sukumar & Shailaja Menon In 1962, Paulo Freire created culture circles in Northeastern Brazil to support 300 sugarcane workers to teach each other how to read the word and their world in 45 days, which enabled them to register to vote. These Culture Circles that began with Sugar Cane workers, catalyzed thousands more. Each …
Yogesh Maitreya Alongside social and economic capital, cultural capital is one important source from which power flows in any society. Culture of any country is always that which is perceived as culture by the dominant (oppressor) groups, neglecting that of the oppressed. Writing, regardless of genre, is often used as one of the major …