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EMERGING AND ESTABLISHED CAREERS IN HUMANITIES In the federation of of the giant mammoths that strike every individual at a rather nascent stage in their lives is the career defining and equally irreverent choice of choosing the streams of academic subjects for their supposed academic pursuits. There is a plethora of integrity and surge of  choices umbrella under the streams of Commerce and Science but what has already been overlooked (although things are looking up) is a rather negligent stream of ‘Humanities’- an academic pursuit that has vague definitions right across the literature of disciplines. But let’s for the safety of subliminal context, assume that humanities largely relates to the study of society and individual through different perspectives. It is a very academic pursuit with a practical application yet again underestimated. Humanities, unlike science or commerce does not involve ‘creation’ but it definitely does involve ‘revelation’ through study. Over th...

BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES OF CURRICULUM Education as a terminology is an abused term. The umbrella of the topics and expectations that this term covers and pandered to; most of it goes highly unnoticed. Normally one would confidently assume, that studying the books prescribed by NCERT would give the privilege of somebody being labelled as ‘educated’ but that barely covers the legitimate grounds and the true essence of the term. So what does it really mean to be educated? I think the perfect example of  someone being truly literate and possessing undiluted, pure knowledge is someone who doesn’t get stuck in the brackets of  curriculum and truly studies for the sake of betterment and not passing an exam. Education in the truest sense of term liberates a person and gives him a true knowledge of rights, responsibilities, duties and identity of being a citizen. It makes him more aware than just somebody equipped to write an exam and pass it with glorious scores. It enrich...

HOW FAR SHOULD ONE STUDY? Gone are the breezy days where even getting into an undergraduate programme in a college was considered to be a ‘prestigious’ feat and the most far fetched dream for somebody who actually wanted to have a complete, holistic experience of education. But jump a couple of years later and you will find almost everybody in an undergraduate course in some university or the other; it is not even a big deal anymore, at all. Even going to a postgraduate school isn’t an excellent feat in education, the closest that probably comes to achieving it is having a PhD. degree but we all know that the sheer number of people in those places are also actually true. So what’s changed and how appropriate is it all really? We shouldn’t just look into the trends in education to trace what really has changed. The numbers have gone through the roof; the acceptance percentages, the people who normally attend college, their grades. What we need to observe is the trends in the ...

WHAT THE 2019 GENERAL ELECTIONS MEAN FOR EDUCATION The summer of 2019 is going to be pretty hot; and I am not just talking about the weather here. The general elections have commenced and it is a battle of the supremes. The frequent sensationalization and tabloidization of the politics in the world we live in has made quite an impression on the citizens of India, the voting decision is governed more by sensational sentiments rather than rational and factual critical thinking. And that is one boat, the nation shouldn’t be a part of but sadly finds itself pedalling through the oceans of media debates, jingoistic speeches and pools of propaganda. The issues are large and there are a huge many things that could be subjected to a necessary albeit heated debate. But, the only sane way to go about them is pluck them one by one, nobody ever retained their sanctity by keeping each foot in different sails. Education is something that is worth of monumental investments but the returns won...