Topic: Education

On 11 March, female students of Arifa Khatijul Kubra Trust, a private residential Islamic school for girls, in the Kokernag area of South Kashmir...

Now entering its third year, the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to hold back some 405 million school children worlwide from a full return to the classroom, according to a new report released on Wednesday by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

The Taliban in Afghanistan has announced that girls’ high schools will be closed, hours after they reopened for the first time in nearly seven months.

Look at what you are being made to do. You are forced to wear saffron scarves and asked to march into universities. I was born a Hindu woman, and I have never seen a saffron scarf in my home in all these years. My own father was a full-time RSS Pracharak who quit the organisation because of its Manuvadi caste-supremacy, because of its hatred of minorities, and because of its hatred of regional languages. I write to you because I have seen before my eyes that even the most brainwashed Sanghi person has the opportunity to leave the hatred behind. You can become a new person, you can become a better individual. You can say no to the politics of hate. 

“I got A Plus for all my subjects, I do not know nor understand why I couldn’t secure a seat.”, says Diya, a student who passed out with flying colors. 

Mohammad Sajid Hussain was a scientist with a promising job at National Aerospace Laboratory. But he wanted to return home. In Chitarpur, his native village...