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Rahul Verma

Kanpur
As seen in: MSN India, The Indian Express, Frontline India, The Hindu, The Quint, The Telegraph (India), The Wire (India), Countercurrents, NewsClick, The India Forum
Covers:  Urban Affairs, Labour & Employment, Caste & Social Inequality, Public Policy, Education
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Children's Rights in India: Who Speaks for Them?

Children's Rights in India: Who Speaks for Them?

India's school systems track children but often fail to hear them. SMCs, NCPCR, and data systems must protect…

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JNU V-C Santishree Pandit’s tenure: reform, rupture or repetition?

JNU V-C Santishree Pandit’s tenure: reform, rupture or repetition?

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How ‘JNU-type’ hiring erodes learning across campuses

How ‘JNU-type’ hiring erodes learning across campuses

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Leaked papers and lost years in India's recruitment system

Leaked papers and lost years in India's recruitment system

Amid protests, Jharkhand's aspirants demand a comprehensive investigation into systemic recruitment failures …

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Maestro on trial

Maestro on trial

The charge that Ray peddled poverty to the West has circulated since the 1950s when some commentators worried…

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Why adult literacy keeps being relaunched

Why adult literacy keeps being relaunched

The most durable evidence on effective adult education comes from campaigns that treated literacy as a social…

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As Bengal drops eggs from mid-day meals, Tamil Nadu and Odisha show another way

As Bengal drops eggs from mid-day meals, Tamil Nadu and Odisha show another way

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The lack of accountability within the NTA

The lack of accountability within the NTA

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Dummy Schooling and Coaching

Dummy Schooling and Coaching

Dummy schools-where students remain enrolled but attend coaching centres-is not a regulatory failure but a st…

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From 27th to 1st: How Punjab became best-performing school education state

From 27th to 1st: How Punjab became best-performing school education state

Punjab’s rise is not just a political talking point. It reflects a series of operational choices, including f…

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India’s deferred future

India’s deferred future

A young workforce trapped between electoral short-termism and structural joblessness exposes a deeper failure…

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Why cartoons keep disappearing from school textbooks

Why cartoons keep disappearing from school textbooks

When cartoons vanish and difficult chapters thin out, the curriculum keeps the vocabulary of democracy on the…

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Odisha's Mining Paradox: Rich in Ore, Poor in Practice

Odisha's Mining Paradox: Rich in Ore, Poor in Practice

Large extractive projects in India follow a predictable sequence. A company or government identifies mineral …

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A reality check on School Management Committees

A reality check on School Management Committees

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What the Trans Amendment does to a student

What the Trans Amendment does to a student

The Trans Amendment impacts transgender students' access to scholarships and resources, complicating their ed…

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Ambedkar Jayanti is not really a celebration. It's a sleight-of-hand by powers-that-be

Ambedkar Jayanti is not really a celebration. It's a sleight-of-hand by powers-that-be

India embraced Ambedkar's symbolism to avoid his radicalism, granting him a public holiday and a Bharat Ratna…

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What the UGC Stay Actually Suspended

What the UGC Stay Actually Suspended

An Article 14 challenge was used to stay the first mandatory mechanism designed to make the right to equality…

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A flame the state cannot guarantee

A flame the state cannot guarantee

The West Asian war-driven LPG disruptions reveal weaknesses in India’s clean cooking system.

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Two Sentences and a 'Conspiracy'

Two Sentences and a 'Conspiracy'

When a state treats the citation of its own data as an act of institutional injury, it is not merely protecti…

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The widening gap between teacher expectations and institutional support

The widening gap between teacher expectations and institutional support

Explore the growing disparity between teacher demands and institutional support in India's educational landsc…

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Why Yuvraj Mehta’s death was not an accident

Why Yuvraj Mehta’s death was not an accident

In urban India, deaths caused by infrastructural failure are seen as unfortunate and incidental. In reality, …

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Faster is not fairer in POCSO case clearance numbers

Faster is not fairer in POCSO case clearance numbers

New data and field reports show that thousands of children and their families still face long trials with lit…

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The right to turn off: Disconnecting from India’s overwork trap

The right to turn off: Disconnecting from India’s overwork trap

Explore the implications of Supriya Sule’s Right to Disconnect Bill, advocating for worker autonomy and menta…

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Teach the crisis: Why NCERT must rework climate and pollution education in its textbooks now

Teach the crisis: Why NCERT must rework climate and pollution education in its textbooks now

Our children need more chapters on the environment, not less. They deserve books that mirror their reality

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