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Avijit Pathak
Avijit Pathak teaches at JNU
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Iqbal and hijab in Madhya Pradesh: When a bulldozer comes to school, we are all diminished
June 19,2023 18:31:45 PM
Assaults of the kind on the Ganga Jamuna High School can be resisted only if teachers, educationists and students come together, communicate with the larger society, and initiate a movement for saving education
Mon, Jun 19, 2023
Rajeev Bhargava’s Between Hope and Despair encourages readers to reflect on public and private moralitySign In to read
June 03,2023 12:00:16 PM
The collection of essays is a creative blend of objectivity and reflexivity, philosophical reasoning and critical insight
Sat, Jun 03, 2023
Avijit Pathak writes: Textbook deletions are an assault on curiosity and debate in the classroomSign In to read
April 07,2023 12:31:33 PM
As students and teachers, we must rediscover ourselves as wanderers and fight for the recovery of the classroom, free from the technologies of surveillance and the authoritarian gaze
Fri, Apr 07, 2023
On Kota suicides, Avijit Pathak writes: We are all responsible for the coaching centre-driven anxietyPremium Story
December 15,2022 16:00:21 PM
As teachers, we must introspect about our failures. As parents, we ought to ask uncomfortable questions about the values of success we inculcate. And as citizens, we must make the political class accountable for its failure to address the aspirations of youngsters
Sat, Dec 17, 2022
Why our obsession with ranking universities does more harm than goodPremium Story
November 18,2022 08:00:32 AM
University rankings harbour a dubious notion about education — everything has to be measured, whatever is immeasurable is insignificant
Sat, Nov 26, 2022
Keeping Gandhi alive in the classroomPremium Story
October 01,2022 10:45:24 AM
Avijit Pathak writes: Gandhi’s simple and profound truth should not be lost amid an intellectually narcissistic game of scholarship. We need to let a dialogic and vibrant classroom encourage students to be self-reflexive, ask new questions to make sense of the age they live in
Mon, Oct 03, 2022
Avijit Pathak writes | University entrance tests cannot be Kaun Banega CrorepatiPremium Story
August 18,2022 18:22:23 PM
Vice-chancellors, teachers and students must come together, and say 'no' to the multiple choice question format and the CUET
Sat, Aug 20, 2022
Exam-driven learning has killed creativity in studentsPremium Story
July 22,2022 04:00:29 AM
Avijit Pathak writes: The result is that Kota, the town in Rajasthan known for all that is ugly about our education system, is seen to be a site of salvation; and the assembly line of the “toppers” reveals the hollowness of this life-killing race
Fri, Jul 22, 2022
That which dies when a teacher is killedPremium Story
June 03,2022 13:24:07 PM
Avijit Pathak writes: The killing of Rajni Bala ought to disturb all those who value the healing power of education
Sat, Jun 04, 2022
How Jiddu Krishnamurthy’s thoughts offer an antidote to violence of everyday lifePremium Story
May 11,2022 04:00:49 AM
Avijit Pathak writes: As we experience violence in the name of religious nationalism, or violence in the name of education, Krishnamurti’s books and talks tend to acquire a new meaning and significance.
Wed, May 11, 2022
Common University Entrance Test won’t solve the real problemsPremium Story
March 29,2022 03:30:58 AM
Avijit Pathak writes: To transform education we need to work on the quality of schools and pedagogy, honest and fair recruitment of teachers, relative autonomy of academic institutions and learn to value the uniqueness of each child.
Tue, Mar 29, 2022
JNU needs the healing touch of hopePremium Story
February 18,2022 03:23:50 AM
Avijit Pathak writes: The new vice-chancellor must help cultivate a culture of conversation and dialogue and the courage to disagree.
Fri, Feb 18, 2022
Thich Nhat Hanh taught us to live in the momentPremium Story
January 27,2022 04:00:35 AM
🔴 Avijit Pathak writes: Amid the tyranny of the clock time and calculation of ‘productivity’, he showed how to live in the here and now
Thu, Jan 27, 2022
bell hooks and her pedagogy of hopePremium Story
December 31,2021 04:30:21 AM
🔴 Avijit Pathak writes: For her, emancipatory education was supposed to be dialogic and experiential and a teacher always listened compassionately and without judgment
Fri, Dec 31, 2021
True religiosity is a quest and has no boundariesPremium Story
December 04,2021 03:16:35 AM
🔴 Avijit Pathak writes: It is not about repeating the scriptures like a parrot, wearing special uniforms, and following the crowd
Sun, Dec 05, 2021
Our children don’t need a ‘deshbhakti’ curriculumPremium Story
October 27,2021 03:12:08 AM
Avijit Pathak writes: What they need is a learning community that makes them capable of distinguishing the soothing light of knowledge and wisdom from the glitz of falsehood and propaganda
Thu, Oct 28, 2021
Teachers should be seen as as carriers of ‘emancipatory education’Premium Story
September 04,2021 03:43:56 AM
Avijit Pathak writes: They hold the lamp of truth, and walk with their students to help them make sense of the world they live in.
Sun, Sep 05, 2021
The spiritual lessons from Covid-19Premium Story
July 03,2021 03:45:05 AM
Pandemic has exposed the limits of modernity. It is time to reflect on the illusory character of our inflated egos, the way we live.
Sat, Jul 03, 2021
Could the coronavirus be the prescription our exam fever needs?Premium Story
April 28,2021 04:00:42 AM
The pandemic has forced us to rethink how we live our lives. We must also allow it to dismantle our exam-centric education system that only creates hyper-competitiveness and perpetuates inequalities.
Wed, Apr 28, 2021
Bengal politics is just like rest of India: toxic, gross and violentPremium Story
March 23,2021 03:01:32 AM
Never mind what the bhadralok class thinks. The poll campaign has exploded the myth of Bengali exceptionalism.
Tue, Mar 23, 2021
In classrooms, we need to rediscover meanings of ‘disobedience’, ‘nationalism’Premium Story
February 27,2021 03:15:40 AM
As teachers, many of us become overly cautious so that every word we utter in our classrooms becomes "technically perfect", "legally sanctified", and is in tune with the dominant ideology of nationhood.
Sat, Feb 27, 2021
Choice before JNU is not between Nehru and Vivekananda, but between a plurality of thought and the psychology of revengePremium Story
January 06,2021 04:22:11 AM
The university should be an ideal place to encourage students and teachers to engage with this plurality of visions, and even live with philosophic ambivalence.
Wed, Jan 06, 2021
There is no correlation between one’s intellectual ability and performance in examinationsPremium Story
October 16,2020 04:09:21 AM
In this world, there is no poetic wonder, no criticality of social science, and no enquiring spirit of science. High cut-offs in admissions are no reflection of standards, but a case of rote learning and hyper-competitiveness
Fri, Oct 16, 2020
Pandemic has confronted us with the challenge of redefining our role — as friends, communicators and healersPremium Story
September 05,2020 03:30:00 AM
Even in the virtual classroom, teachers are doing something more than just dictating the notes of biology and geography; they are touching and healing the tormented souls of their students. Let us salute them on Teacher's Day.
Sat, Sep 05, 2020
Patriotism need not be free from criticality or art of resistancePremium Story
March 09,2020 00:48:29 AM
Education should sow the seeds of true religiosity and universalism: A mind that sees beyond borders.
Mon, Mar 09, 2020