"Real freedom in the classroom, must, in the final instance, be in symbiosis with the freedom offered to the pursuit of research." Not just in India, everywhere.

Wonderful feeling to hold ‘Audacious Hope’. Thanks so much to ⁦Westland Books⁩ ⁦Karthika V.K.⁩ ⁦Ajitha GS⁩ for taking it under your wing & to ⁦jaipurlitfest⁩ Namita Gokhale⁩ ⁦William Dalrymple⁩ ⁦Sanjoy K Roy⁩ for its launch this Sunday.

Interesting. How Rich Donors Have Caused More Harm Than Good to India's Education m.thewire.in/article/educat…

The media phases of an Indian election: 1. When are elections? 2. Party switching updates 3. Terrible opinion polls 4. Terrible opeds by retired bureaucrats who could not find time to improve anything in 40-year career 4. Massacre of South Indian place names 5. Election day

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We really need new parties and contestants but the media, civil society and others would have to fair and kind to newcomers.

Sad though apt segue into a week when I will be teaching about money and poverty.

What inequalities - old and new - exist in #education today? How might we tackle them? 🤔 Find out in the #SpecialIssue 'A re-view of educational inequalities' guest edited by Sarah Jane Aiston & Guido Walraven! 🔗 tandfonline.com/toc/cedr20/76/1

Class-based inequalities are hidden from children preparing for selective secondary school transition by parents & teachers according to #OpenAccess research by Carlotta Reh & Sara Landolt 👇 🔓 doi.org/10.1080/001319… #ParentalInvolvement

As #Bihar votes in #LokSabha2024, what motivates Biharis’ politics? I analyse the vocabularies of #dignity and #share that spurs the State’s politics in today’s ⁦The Times Of India⁩

Like that is their only identity! More than legality or press ethics, it shows the mentality of the reporters and editors.

Nine years 🥹 It’s here. A special advance copy of my first book: ‘The Many Lives of Syeda X: The story of an Unknown Indian’. Out soon.

True patriots be damned: Medha Patkar’s conviction and more than 20 years of inconvenient questions scroll.in/article/107009… via Scroll.in

My latest article!