For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Tanishque Gedam Reservations in promotion for people belonging to the Scheduled Castes(SCs) & Scheduled Tribes(STs) in public services and government employment has been subject to intense debate and severe criticism ever since it first came into effect. However the issue was in the limelight again after the apex court in February ruled that reservation in …
Arvind Boudhh The outbreak of the COVID-19 has caused havoc globally and different countries have taken different measures to curb the spread, and to treat the infected people. The deadly virus in a way has revealed the gory truth about the governments’ priorities and the extents to which they can go to meet these priorities. …
Prashanthi Konday Once upon a time in my childhood, I remember my mother rejecting my wish to join a dance class, volleyball team, and school educational trips because we have to pay extra money other than school fee. She said, all of them don’t give you a job, or good career and we can’t …
TISS Alumni Letter of Solidarity by TISS Alumni March 23, 2018. This date marks the completion of a month of students’ protests over the withdrawal of fee waivers to Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Other Backward Caste – Non Creamy Layer (OBC-NC) students availing Government of India Post Matric Scholarship (GoI-PMS) in …
Nidhin Shobhana (This is a short report on a self-perception survey conducted among Young Syrian Christians as a part the author’s MPhil Coursework in Centre for Studies in Discrimination and Exclusion, JNU) What is the value of a perception survey? The Mandal Commission in its ‘socio-educational’ household survey asked the participants the following question— Do …
Hany Babu MT The letter dated 5 March 2018 from the University Grants Commission (UGC) to the higher educational institutions regarding the implementation of reservation in teaching posts has once again made it abundantly clear that those who are at the helm of affairs in the Ministry of Human Resources (MHRD) and the UGC have …
Deepak Kumar Nanda Tata Institute of Social Sciences Students Union 2017-18 had given a university strike in the name of “TISS Bandh” on 21st of February 2018 with three major demands to revoke the policy of Government of India Post Metric Scholarship (GOI-PMS) for the batches of MA 2016-18, 2017-19 and upcoming 2018-20 respectively. In …
सुजित निकाळजे (Sujit Nikalje) गेल्या काही वर्षांपासून शिक्षणाचे बाजारीकरण होत असून ७५ वर्षांपासून सामाजिक कार्यामध्ये ‘सामाजिक न्यायासाठी’ उभ्या असणाऱ्या टाटा सामाजिक विज्ञान संस्थेने इतर खाजगी शिक्षण संस्थांप्रमाणे शिक्षणाचे बाजारीकरण करून अनुसूचित जाती-जमाती, OBC व इतर कमकुवत तबक्यांतील विद्यार्थ्यांना शुल्क आकरण्यात आले व भरण्याची सक्ती केली आहे. शिक्षणाचे बाजारीकरण थांबवून भारतीय संविधानाने ठरवून दिलेल्या मूलभूत …
Arun Mahanand From Brahmanisation to Privatisation of Education, at the Cost of Dalit-Bahujan Students: Case of Tata Institute of Social Sciences Until the last semester, the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) would provide financial support to students from SC, ST and OBC categories, who were eligible for Government of India’s (GoI) Scholarships. Students …