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“Professors of Practice” (PoP) for India’s Educational Institutions; UGC Launches Portal

UGC has launched an online portal to facilitate the recruitment of industry experts as “Professors of Practice” (PoP) for India's education institutions. This move is expected to reduce the gap between academia and industry in different domains. ....

June 05, 2023 Governance and Political Studies , NEP , university , Positive Bharat , UGC , Professor

Foreign Universities in India: An Analysis on the Criticisms

Is the arrival of foreign universities to India really a negative development? Of course there could be reasons both for and against. But ultimately, it wouldn’t be as harmful or alarming as it is portrayed, especially if the challenges are convert....

May 19, 2023 Governance and Political Studies , Historical and Civilisational Studies , college education , UPA government , National Education Policy , university , Foreign Universities

New Focus on Hindu Studies

Kalyan Viswanathan

The academic study of Hinduism is the subject of numerous ongoing debates and initiatives increasingly taking place on a global scale. Hence, many crucial questions may arise when we think of conceiving the academic discipline called Hindu Studies. T....

June 29, 2022 Historical and Civilisational Studies , Indian Constitution , Research , Hindu Studies , Tradition , Podcast , university , Western academia , IKS , Discipline , social sciences , European Enlightenment

In Defence of 'Intolerance’

Dr Dilip K. Chakrabarti, Editor, VIF History Volumes Commentary

It was not long after the first Modi government came to power that a number of Indian academics based in some Indian and Western universities, issued a public statement expressing apprehension about the dangers that the country supposedly faced fr....

March 26, 2021 Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , Media , academia , fascist , tolerance , university