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Avijit Pathak
Avijit Pathak teaches at JNU
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Keeping Gandhi alive in the classroomSubscriber Only
October 01,2022 10:45:24 AM
Avijit Pathak writes: Gandhi’s simple and profound truth should not be lost amid an intellectually narcissistic game of scholarship. We need to let a dialogic and vibrant classroom encourage students to be self-reflexive, ask new questions to make sense of the age they live in
Mon, Oct 03, 2022
Avijit Pathak writes | University entrance tests cannot be Kaun Banega CrorepatiSubscriber Only
August 18,2022 18:22:23 PM
Vice-chancellors, teachers and students must come together, and say 'no' to the multiple choice question format and the CUET
Sat, Aug 20, 2022
Exam-driven learning has killed creativity in studentsSubscriber Only
July 22,2022 04:00:29 AM
Avijit Pathak writes: The result is that Kota, the town in Rajasthan known for all that is ugly about our education system, is seen to be a site of salvation; and the assembly line of the “toppers” reveals the hollowness of this life-killing race
Fri, Jul 22, 2022
That which dies when a teacher is killedSubscriber Only
June 03,2022 13:24:07 PM
Avijit Pathak writes: The killing of Rajni Bala ought to disturb all those who value the healing power of education
Sat, Jun 04, 2022
How Jiddu Krishnamurthy’s thoughts offer an antidote to violence of everyday lifeSubscriber Only
May 11,2022 04:00:49 AM
Avijit Pathak writes: As we experience violence in the name of religious nationalism, or violence in the name of education, Krishnamurti’s books and talks tend to acquire a new meaning and significance.
Wed, May 11, 2022
Common University Entrance Test won’t solve the real problemsSubscriber Only
March 29,2022 03:30:58 AM
Avijit Pathak writes: To transform education we need to work on the quality of schools and pedagogy, honest and fair recruitment of teachers, relative autonomy of academic institutions and learn to value the uniqueness of each child.
Tue, Mar 29, 2022
JNU needs the healing touch of hopeSubscriber Only
February 18,2022 03:23:50 AM
Avijit Pathak writes: The new vice-chancellor must help cultivate a culture of conversation and dialogue and the courage to disagree.
Fri, Feb 18, 2022
Thich Nhat Hanh taught us to live in the momentSubscriber Only
January 27,2022 04:00:35 AM
🔴 Avijit Pathak writes: Amid the tyranny of the clock time and calculation of ‘productivity’, he showed how to live in the here and now
Thu, Jan 27, 2022
bell hooks and her pedagogy of hopeSubscriber Only
December 31,2021 04:30:21 AM
🔴 Avijit Pathak writes: For her, emancipatory education was supposed to be dialogic and experiential and a teacher always listened compassionately and without judgment
Fri, Dec 31, 2021
True religiosity is a quest and has no boundariesSubscriber Only
December 04,2021 03:16:35 AM
🔴 Avijit Pathak writes: It is not about repeating the scriptures like a parrot, wearing special uniforms, and following the crowd
Sun, Dec 05, 2021
Our children don’t need a ‘deshbhakti’ curriculumSubscriber Only
October 27,2021 03:12:08 AM
Avijit Pathak writes: What they need is a learning community that makes them capable of distinguishing the soothing light of knowledge and wisdom from the glitz of falsehood and propaganda
Thu, Oct 28, 2021
Teachers should be seen as as carriers of ‘emancipatory education’Subscriber Only
September 04,2021 03:43:56 AM
Avijit Pathak writes: They hold the lamp of truth, and walk with their students to help them make sense of the world they live in.
Sun, Sep 05, 2021
The spiritual lessons from Covid-19Subscriber Only
July 03,2021 03:45:05 AM
Pandemic has exposed the limits of modernity. It is time to reflect on the illusory character of our inflated egos, the way we live.
Sat, Jul 03, 2021
Could the coronavirus be the prescription our exam fever needs?Subscriber Only
April 28,2021 04:00:42 AM
The pandemic has forced us to rethink how we live our lives. We must also allow it to dismantle our exam-centric education system that only creates hyper-competitiveness and perpetuates inequalities.
Wed, Apr 28, 2021
Bengal politics is just like rest of India: toxic, gross and violentSubscriber Only
March 23,2021 03:01:32 AM
Never mind what the bhadralok class thinks. The poll campaign has exploded the myth of Bengali exceptionalism.
Tue, Mar 23, 2021
In classrooms, we need to rediscover meanings of ‘disobedience’, ‘nationalism’Subscriber Only
February 27,2021 03:15:40 AM
As teachers, many of us become overly cautious so that every word we utter in our classrooms becomes "technically perfect", "legally sanctified", and is in tune with the dominant ideology of nationhood.
Sat, Feb 27, 2021
Choice before JNU is not between Nehru and Vivekananda, but between a plurality of thought and the psychology of revengeSubscriber Only
January 06,2021 04:22:11 AM
The university should be an ideal place to encourage students and teachers to engage with this plurality of visions, and even live with philosophic ambivalence.
Wed, Jan 06, 2021
There is no correlation between one’s intellectual ability and performance in examinationsSubscriber Only
October 16,2020 04:09:21 AM
In this world, there is no poetic wonder, no criticality of social science, and no enquiring spirit of science. High cut-offs in admissions are no reflection of standards, but a case of rote learning and hyper-competitiveness
Fri, Oct 16, 2020
Pandemic has confronted us with the challenge of redefining our role — as friends, communicators and healersSubscriber Only
September 05,2020 03:30:00 AM
Even in the virtual classroom, teachers are doing something more than just dictating the notes of biology and geography; they are touching and healing the tormented souls of their students. Let us salute them on Teacher's Day.
Sat, Sep 05, 2020
Patriotism need not be free from criticality or art of resistanceSubscriber Only
March 09,2020 00:48:29 AM
Education should sow the seeds of true religiosity and universalism: A mind that sees beyond borders.
Mon, Mar 09, 2020
Gandhi’s dreams for the nation were dented in 2019. The new year offers hopeSubscriber Only
January 06,2020 01:35:24 AM
From Jamia to JNU, from Hyderabad Central University to Aligarh Muslim University, and from even the IITs and IIMs, students are dissenting. In this non-violent and aesthetically enriched resistance, I have begun to see the return of the lost dream.
Mon, Jan 06, 2020
The new generation has to experiment with the Mahatma, and his art of resistanceSubscriber Only
October 26,2019 04:00:35 AM
I ask myself: How was it possible for him to be religious, yet so elastic, dialogic, open and inclusive? Even though he chose the political domain as his field of sadhana, never did he allow religion to be reduced to an ideology of hatred and division.
Sat, Oct 26, 2019
Teachers ought to renew faith in the very meaning of the vocation of teachingSubscriber Only
September 05,2019 03:30:51 AM
They are not loyal soldiers, nor cogs in a bureaucratic machine. They must be free to be wanderers. And poets and philosophers
Thu, Sep 05, 2019
The escape from freedomSubscriber Only
July 17,2019 00:05:33 AM
Normalisation of surveillance destroys what sustains a civilisation — human interaction filled with trust, care.
Wed, Jul 17, 2019
Education in the liberal arts and humanities are important in themselvesSubscriber Only
June 06,2019 01:48:52 AM
The standardised “ambition” that schools and anxiety-ridden parents cultivate among the teenagers makes it difficult for them to accept that it is possible to imagine yet another world beyond the “secure” career options in medical science, engineering and commerce.
Thu, Jun 06, 2019Journalism of Courage
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