ThePrintPod: Centre forms expert panel to review UGC draft curriculum amid concerns over ‘grave defects’

Three things have come together to raise a combination of issues related to caste and minorities that India has failed to resolve even 75 years after its Constitution was born. The caste issue, of course, has persisted through centuries. The shoe thrown at the Chief Justice and, sadder still, the ‘suicide’ of Haryana Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Y. Puran Kumar & the third, the somewhat counter-intuitive success among the well-heeled of Homebound, by Neeraj Ghaywan, the most prominent and powerful Dalit filmmaker in Bollywood. Education, reservations and government jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity — Watch this week's #NationalInterest with ThePrint’s Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta.

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Kerala & Karnataka govt have said they wouldn’t adopt the curriculum. Over 900 academics signed petition against draft mathematics curriculum last month, urging UGC to withdraw it.  

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Quiet, peaceful Ladakh saw violent protests break out in September, killing 4 people, and the arrest of Sonam Wangchuk. In ep. 1738 of #CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta talks of the bravery of Ladakhis, their patriotism and why they are important to India. Bismee Taskin, who reported from Ladakh, joins in to explain the insecurities of the people and why they are angry. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://theprint.in/india/behind-ladakhs-demand-for-sixth-schedule-a-decades-old-fight-for-identity-a-place-at-the-table/2757197/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://theprint.in/india/he-fought-in-kargil-but-died-by-police-bullets-family-mourns-ex-serviceman-shot-dead-in-leh-stir/2752036/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Exclusive content, special privileges & more – Subscribe to ThePrint for Special benefits: https://theprint.in/subscribe/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

It takes a special talent in our politicians to make Leh’s Tibetan Buddhists so belligerent, ThePrint Political Editor DK Singh elaborated in this episode of #PoliticallyCorrect   To read the latest column: https://theprint.in/opinion/politically-correct/modi-silent-on-ladakh-manipur/2757998/