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NETA-BABU BROTHER-
HOOD DESTROYING 44
PRIVATE EDUCATION
In the thick of the SCHOOL FEES &
unprecedented economic
disruption following the ONLINE CLASSES
ongoing national lockdown CONFUSION:
prompted by the Covid-19
pandemic, India’s powerful NATIONAL ROUND-UP
20 million-strong politician-
bureaucrat brotherhood
steeped in socialist dogma,
seems to have discerned
an opportunity to deliver
a hammer blow to private
education
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DECOUPLING TIME TO RETHINK
& CRASH OF HISTORY TEACHING
CIVILISATIONS
56 debilitating economic In the past, history was
Confronted with the
written as the story of
deadly pandemic and
nations and great men.
Today history’s subject
crisis, the global
matter is considerably
KATHA: ALTERNATIVE community should more varied and includes
EDUCATION SUCCESS have united in multiple the margins of society —
narratives of groups at
acts of cooperation
and solidarity.
STORY Unfortunately, the very Gitanjali Surendran
opposite is happening
Katha’s pioneer initiative — Sudheendra
of providing alternative Kulkarni
education and skills training IN THIS ISSUE
to 9.8 million slum household
children in Delhi NCR has
been recognised worldwide 50 Editorial 8 Cove r Story 30
Mailbox 10 Teacher-2-Teacher 48
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
12 Education News 12 International News 50
Education Notes 22
EDUCATION NEWS Eyewitness 56
Education Briefs 24
Delhi: NIRF Rankings 2020
Maharashtra: Cloudy outlook Expert Comment 26 Books 62
Karnataka: Battle won
Young Achievers 28 Postscript 66
West Bengal: Brightening
horizon
Tamil Nadu: Grim future
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