India Spent a Decade Making the B.Ed Longer. Next Year It Gets Shorter Again
NCTE will offer a one-year B.Ed from the coming session, though a Supreme Court-appointed commission had asked for the longer course. Anyone who wants to teach in an Indian school needs a teaching degree. For the past decade that degree has taken two years. From the coming session, though, a one-year B.Ed becomes possible again. […]
Two Villages Lost Dozens of People to Police Firing for Raising a Flag. Both Waited Decades for Recognition
Tarapur in Bihar and Eram in Odisha saw two of the largest police firings of the freedom movement, yet neither is widely known today. Every August the same few places return in the retelling of India’s freedom struggle. Jallianwala Bagh, the Red Fort, Sabarmati. Tarapur and Eram lost more people to police bullets than almost […]