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Krishna Kumar

Krishna Kumar

Articles by Krishna Kumar

The negative echoes of a divided education system

Since no course evaluation or any other procedure ensuring transparency exists, pedagogic experience remains confined to a student’s personal memory. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Mar 11, 2026 14:57 IST

Imagining a modern society free of plastic

Nearly every discussion on environment-related matters has faced the problem that the plastics treaty has encountered in Geneva. A clash between collective global imperative and the vested interests of certain powerful nations has proved nearly impossible to resolve (AP)

Updated on Aug 21, 2025 14:58 IST

Adolescence becoming uncharted waters now

As a step towards reaffirming children’s rights, moves such as Meta’s to disallow social media access to children below a certain age are good, but they may prove a bit too weak and late, considering how early a vast number of parents permit, and even encourage, children to use smartphones (REUTERS)

Updated on Apr 20, 2025 15:04 IST

What the death of a degree says about education innovation

The course design had struck a deep chemistry between psychology, linguistics and the other social sciences. It was an unprecedented success story in the history of teacher education

Updated on Mar 19, 2025 14:37 IST

Listening to Gandhi in our troubled times

Chennai, Oct 02 (ANI): Floral tributes being paid to Mahatma Gandhi on his 155th birth anniversary, in Chennai on Wednesday. (ANI Photo) (Lakshmi)

Updated on Oct 19, 2024 15:28 IST

Teachers missing from higher education reform

Students sitting in a single room at Government Primary Smart School, Kundanpuri (Manish/Hindustan Times)

Updated on Jul 21, 2024 18:27 IST

Capturing curriculum to sculpt young minds

Mumbai, India - June 15, 2024: Children enjoy on the first day of school at Madhavrao Bhagvat High School, Vile Parle in Mumbai, India, on Saturday, June 15, 2024. (Photo by Satish Bate/ Hindustan Times) (Hindustan Times)

Updated on Jun 18, 2024 20:50 IST

Educating the ladies, an update from Bollywood

Laapataa Ladies (Jio Studios and Kindling Pictures)

Updated on May 1, 2024 16:37 IST

Kota machine exposes underbelly of education

Faith in the Kota machine runs across north and central India, in district towns and villages (MINT)

Updated on Sep 6, 2023 16:11 IST

Opinion | Our education system needs to be rewritten

Education and health infrastructure are in appalling shape in the countryside. The gains made in enrolment in primary classes have proved to be of limited value because of serious shortage of worthwhile secondary and post-secondary education.

Updated on Jan 29, 2019 02:28 IST

How education can affect our socio-cultural milieu

The Sabarimala controversy can be a good topic for encouraging critical pedagogy in a senior secondary class, but the treatment of such a topic in a school textbook must be nuanced and capable of engaging the young

Updated on Nov 23, 2018 13:24 IST

Let the Kathua rape victim be called by her name

Delhi University students protest against the Kathua and Unnao rape cases, New Delhi, April 16

Updated on Apr 18, 2018 13:35 IST

Science learning must not remain a memory drill

The outcome of a practical is fully known before the practical starts. There is no challenge or excitement involved in taking the required steps and arriving at a predetermined conclusion. Perhaps the only gain, when a practical is done honestly, is that children learn to handle the equipment

Updated on Mar 30, 2018 06:54 IST

What ails India’s higher education establishment

Half a century ago, the Kothari Commission had recommended that India must spend 6% of its GDP on education. The country is far from reaching that goal

Updated on Jan 12, 2018 11:13 IST

Why I fled Delhi — a city I called home for 45 years

Children cover their faces with masks due to dense smog, New Delhi, India, November 12, 2017 (Sonu Mehta/HT)

Updated on Dec 17, 2017 05:25 IST

Ryan student murder: Why installing more CCTVs cannot protect our children

The Ryan incident offers a peep-hole into the hazy normalcy that envelops the routine of school management.

Updated on Sep 29, 2017 17:25 IST

Why exams like JEE, NEET are not good enough to test students’ aptitude

Chennai: Loyola College students during their protest demanding justice for Anitha and urging the Central government to ban NEET, in Chennai on Wednesday

Updated on Sep 12, 2017 05:22 IST

Children should not be made into activists to fix the failings of the system

Taking a cue from the success of Rewari school girls, the students of a government school in Kadarpur protest outside their school demanding upgradation in Gurgaon, May 2017

Updated on Jun 28, 2017 15:27 IST

AAP’s midsummer night’s dream has failed, especially in Delhi’s schools

The defeat of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the recent municipal elections in Delhi marks the end of an unusual dream.

Updated on May 14, 2017 18:30 IST

Many universities neither encourage divergent views nor permit dissent

Students from Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University shout slogans as they march behind a banner during a rally in New Delhi on March 4, 2017

Updated on Apr 4, 2017 06:28 IST

Don’t make the Class 10 boards compulsory once again

The exam system acquired its present shape in the latter half the 19th century. Insulating teachers from the evaluation of their own students was meant to give an impression of fairness. The world has moved on, but we remain stuck to the exam culture we have been used to.

Updated on Dec 19, 2016 19:36 IST

HTLS Column by Krishna Kumar: Our education system must address our needs, not of others

By aggregating a diverse country such as ours, we lose sight of the problem our system of education faces

Updated on Nov 30, 2016 04:35 IST

Taking a great leap backward

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Updated on Aug 4, 2016 02:04 IST

The new child labour law will pull children out of classrooms

The new child labour law allows children to work in family enterprises after school hours, a provision that will pull the daughters of poor parents out of school

Updated on Aug 3, 2016 18:09 IST

Through Dalai Lama, one rediscovers Buddhism

The Dalai Lama’s presence in India as the leader of the community provides an explanation for the coherent and purposeful life it has led for over half a century without frustration.

Updated on Apr 22, 2016 03:15 IST

India’s ivory towers: Why our universities are so vulnerable

JNU students marching in support of JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar. Our universities are plagued by a throng of administrators who seem to value political kinship more than cultivating independent minds.

Updated on Feb 23, 2016 06:06 IST

Modern pedagogy the way forward: Inclusive schooling makes the grade

Many Western nations achieved greater inner cohesion because common schooling softened the boundaries between classes and cultural groups.

Updated on Feb 2, 2016 19:30 IST

A common schooling system would bring us together as a society

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Updated on Sep 3, 2015 16:28 IST

Slow erasing of the teacher: Higher education is being undermined

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Updated on Apr 6, 2015 12:46 IST

End war against teachers

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Updated on Oct 3, 2014 09:44 IST

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