“I urge parents not to compare their children with those of others and not to treat their children like podiums on stages. We have also seen that those parents who have not been very successful in their lives have nothing to say or want to tell the world about their successes and achievements, make the […]
Krishna Kumar is a former Director of NCERT and author of The Child’s Language and the Teacher. His latest book is Thank You, Gandhi
Go to any school, and you will sense the problem: most teachers don’t treat language as a means to think and express. Reading and writing are taught as mechanical […]
Indore, February 28. Four student leaders from the city’s Government Holkar Science College (estb.1891) were expelled for gross indiscipline after being denied permission to organise a Holi celebration on campus. Following an investigation, Principal Anamika Jain confirmed that the college’s disciplinary committee has expelled the students and instructed them to collect their […]
New Delhi, March 1. Hello Kids, India’s largest preschool chains based on the no-royalty model, has crossed a significant milestone by establishing 1,000 centres in India and Bangladesh. Under a new plan, Hello Kids now aims to cross 2,000 centres in the next three years and provide early childhood education to more […]
To a nation with education and economy in the doldrums, India’s 10-25 million gifted children offer hope of inventing and innovating sock-it-to-’em killer products and services that will leapfrog the country to the forefront of the global economic development race – Sridhar Rajagopalan, Swarnali Chakraborty, Nagendra Mopada & Summiya Yasmeen
Day by day, Tamil Nadu chief minister M.K. Stalin is stepping up his war against the BJP/NDA government at the Centre. According to Stalin, the BJP leadership — especially prime minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah — is hell-bent upon imposing Hindi — the lingua franca of the socio-economically […]
Two years after against all pollsters’ opinions, the Congress party was swept to power in Karnataka with a majority of 135 in the 224-strong legislative assembly, the state government is floundering in a sea of troubles. Chief minister Siddaramaiah is under investigation for alleged involvement in a […]
For people who value social skills and refinement, America’s newly re-elected President Donald J. Trump is a difficult man to like. He comes across as a swaggering bully intent on instilling fear into government employees and heads of state abroad.
America’s 46th president is only too aware that the United States is the world’s wealthiest, economically […]
The death in Lisbon, Portugal of Prince Karim Aga Khan IV at age 88 on February 4, didn’t get as much media coverage in India as it merited. For sixty-eight years Prince Karim spiritually and temporally guided the small, globally dispersed Nizari Ismailiasm Shia Muslim community of Middle East and subcontinental origin. Despite the estimated […]
From Prime Minister Modi downward, India’s entire political class and the establishment keep proclaiming from the rooftops that the 21st century is India’s, and attaining the PM’s Viksit (‘developed’) Bharat and $30 trillion (cf. $4 trillion) goals is an inevitability. But the plain truth is that in 75 years since independence, Indian higher education institutions […]
JBCN International School, Borivali recently hosted the 4th edition of Guardians of the Future, an inspiring celebration dedicated to recognising the exceptional contributions of preschool .....Read More
Language weaponisation & linguistic politics
krishna kumar
Krishna Kumar is a former Director of NCERT and author of The Child’s Language and the Teacher. His latest book is Thank You, Gandhi
Go to any school, and you will sense the problem: most teachers don’t treat language as a means to think and express. Reading and writing are taught as mechanical […]