“A Professor Calling A Muslim Student A ‘Terrorist’ Is Neither Funny Nor...
Trigger warning: Islamophobia Lately, an incident at Manipal University has been taking the Internet by storm. During an ongoing lecture, a professor called a student 'Kasab', a reference to the...
View ArticleInstitute of Home Economics: My Safe Space, My Second Home
When I was a school kid, I was always told that it was my second home; the only difference was that I never felt the warmth and closeness in those 14 precious years of my childhood. I expected the...
View ArticleI Had A Horrible Experience With The Tamil Nadu Medical Selection Helpline
I just wanna share my experience while calling the Tamil Nadu Selection Helpline. My Story So I was allotted a Govt quota seat through the TN medical Selection, however it was not the course which I...
View ArticleDid The Bengaluru School Violate Boundaries By Finding Condoms In Student’s Bag?
I was scrolling through my Google feed when I saw a news article there- the headline says, "Bengaluru schools find condoms, contraceptive pills, cigarettes in students' bag." I was curious, so I...
View ArticleNot Getting Into IIT, NIT Or IIIT Doesn’t Mean I Won’t Be Successful
Hey there! First, I'd like to ask you, what were your criteria for a good college when you freshly graduated from school? Was it in terms of how beautiful and enormous their campus is? Was it in terms...
View ArticleStudent Diaries: On Finding An Identity After Moving Away From Home
When I first thought about having to shift so far from home and my family for in-person college, I didn’t think of it in solid terms. The feeling manifested in my chest as an abstract ball of fear,...
View ArticleHow India’s “Exam Warriors” Have Promoted Majoritarianism
The Manipal Institute of Technology in Karnataka has suspended an assistant professor after a video showing a Muslim student powerfully criticizing him for calling him by a terrorist’s name went viral...
View ArticleWhy Do Many Students End Up Cheating In Exams?
India is a country where education is actually more of a scam rather than an economic gain. Examination is where Indian students have to struggle a lot because mostly colleges award degrees on the...
View ArticleAre India’s Contemporary Educational Institutions Safe For Minorities?
Education is often deemed as a tool to bring in egalitarianism to a society. It is seen as a way to ‘level the playing field’ for students who hail from socially, historically and economically...
View ArticleI Want To Change The Field, I Still Like A Lot: Architecture. Is That Wrong?
I want to quit my field, and my parents are pestering me not to. Oh! Let me clarify I have already graduated. I am being pestered for Masters. Rightfully they want me to give it chance, or some more...
View ArticleCollege Life: A Place To Play It Safe, Or A Place To Get Lost?
Recently, I watched a video where Conan O’Brien was invited to his alma mater for an interview and to interact with the students at Harvard. And during the conversation, Conan said something that made...
View ArticleLet Me Tell You What My First Day In Medical School Was Like
Newcomers festival. The Day of newcomers. The day in which a fresh bunch of students inducted into the course. One of the grand ceremonies in the college. A beautiful beginning of our career. It was...
View ArticleYaar Over Pyaar: A College Life Lesson!
Even before we enter our colleges, the ones who are hopeless romantics like me just wait for that one moment when your dupatta entangles into the watch of your prince charming or you have the most...
View ArticleAs A Gujarati, This Is How I Learned Malayalam In My University
I have completed my education till graduation in Gujarat. Coming to a Central University and witnessing the great cultural diversity was a completely unique experience for me! It was for the first...
View ArticleDiscontinuing Maulana Azad Fellowship Is Against Education Of Minorities
Articles 29 and 30 of the Indian Constitution contain provisions securing the rights of minorities and institutions run by minorities. Article 30 provides rights to minorities that all minority...
View ArticleTransitioning From School To College Life Is One Hell Of A Ride
As change is the only permanent thing in this universe, we often experience such phases of life that add more meaning to our existence. Some of these experiences gives us immense joy while others...
View ArticleIndian Institutes Of Savarnas: Reservation Norms Violated In IIT/IIMs
India’s premier higher educational institutions for Engineering and Management, IITs and IIMs, have been violating the constitutionally mandated reservation norms for years. The violations are visible...
View ArticleAnother Discriminating Measure By The GOI, MANF Fellowship Discontinued
Higher education should be accessible to all, not just those willing to the debt. Campuses at universities and schools are already very ridiculously expensive. There was a sharp increase in...
View ArticleA Note From An Enraged Undergrad Student At A Public Indian University
I'm writing this with utter disgust and anger at the present Indian education system. For someone who thrives on the idea of having a dedicated academic career and being quite an advocator of...
View Article“इलाहाबाद यूनिवर्सिटी एड्मिशन के नाम पर स्टूडेंट्स के भविष्य से खेल रही है”
आज हम यूनिवर्सिटीज़ व कॉलेजेस में एड्मिशन की कुव्यवस्था पर बात करेंगे कि कैसे 2022 - 23 का सेशन दिसम्बर में भी शुरू नहीं हो पाया है! कई जगहों पर अभी तो तक दाखिला भी नहीं पूरा हो पाया है! कट-ऑफ का...
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