The Narendra Modi government’s preference for a “presidential” system has found reflection in a concept note for the museum of Prime Ministers that is scheduled to come up on the sprawling Teen ...

Rajiv Ray, president of the Delhi University Teachers Association and the Federation of Central Universities Teachers Associations slammed the government’s “recent attempts to crush voices of diss...

There is a pecking order in the private sector of university education in India. There are the speckled billboards that announce teaching shops on vacant exurban sites just off our highways and then t...

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday described the school classrooms his government has built as “temples”, taking a leaf out of Jawaharlal Nehru’s book and castigating the present rul...

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said India was fortunate to get a Prime Minister like Jawaharlal Nehru, using his example to deride the fresh Ram temple campaign and the Narendra Modi g...

In the middle of a furore over the alleged threat to institutions under the Narendra Modi regime, two events that unfolded nearly 1,000km apart have signalled a further shrinking of the space for diss...

If there is one country in the world that understands the importance of national unity, it is the United States of America. After all it fought a civil war to preserve it. That’s why the first memor...

One of the joys of reading old newspapers on microfilm is the serendipitous discoveries one makes. Looking for reports on Gandhi’s stay in Calcutta in August-September 1947, I came across a remarkab...

The University Grants Commission has fixed a 70:30 formula for selecting research students with the bigger weightage for what candidates score in their written entrance exam and 30 per cent of how muc...