Research dispatches, field notes, and commentary from India Institute.
It is a good first step to reduce corruption in the education department and remove a significant hurdle for private schools to perform to their best. Yesterday, the Delhi government…
This article written by Ritu Bhandari was published by The News Minute on 18th May, 2015. On November 27, 1973, Aruna Shanbaug, a junior nurse at the King Edward Memorial…
Save Deepalaya School, Sanjay Colony For more than twenty years, Deepalaya, an NGO based in Delhi, has been successfully running a school in the slums of Sanjay Colony in Okhla,…
In his latest column on Mint popular education columnist Anurag Behar has called for reforms in the teacher education system in the country. In doing so, and as one would…
On November 27, 1973, Aruna Shanbaug, a junior nurse at the King Edward Memorial Hospital in Mumbai was sodomised and brutally assaulted by a janitor working in the same hospital.…
This article written by Baladevan Rangaraju, Founder Director of India Institute was published by Swarajya on 23rd September, 2014. Higher education in India is considered among the poorer in the…
In India, a woman is raped every 15 minutes as per the National Crime Records Bureau. And this ghastly statistic is only based on the total tally of rape cases…
The classical contract theory required the parties to decide the terms of contract themselves without any government intervention. It also required a perfect competition and free markets where rule of…
In our last weekly your view, we asked you whether higher education institutions not enjoying autonomy in matters of policy is an important reason for poor quality graduates in our…
Today, world military expenditure is estimated to have reached $1.756 trillion. This corresponds to 2.5 per cent of world gross domestic product (GDP), or approximately $249 for each person in…
