INDIAN ACADEMY

FLYING FIGHTER AIRCRAFT: A STEP TOWARDS GENDER EMPOWERMENT                                                Dr. Keshab Chandra Mandal                                When women got the right to vote and to get elected in elections through the Constitution of India after the independence in 1947, it ushered a new era in the process of gender empowerment. This decision of the Constitution makers first gave recognition to women's contribution in the freedom movement and nation building. Women are deprived of all powers and freedoms since time immemorial irrespective of any society, culture and nature of government. They are ...

Again the Left Party and some like minded or otherwise parties' Trade Unions have adopted the nasty methods of bandh politics. There are so many ways and methods to protest against one or more discrimination, oppression, exploitation etc. The people who have thought of calling a bandh and paralyzing the entire system, destroying work culture, making million dollars of losses, obstructing other people's freedom of movement and right to work must be brought to book. Or exemplary punishment should be given to the bandh imposers. I strongly denounce the parties and their leaders for taking such suicidal decisions by calling a nation-wide bandh. They are just anti-government, anti-people and anti-development. The youth of India do not like the politics of strike and they will discard those who are resorting to this obnoxious method of protesting. In West Bengal Mamata Banerjee has taken a drastic step in controlling strikes and preventing losses of production. I strongly su...

I love my students very much. Students are our children, they are the backbone of the society, they are the future of our nation. Their main task is to study and remain engaged in academic activities. Libraries and reading rooms are the best places for them. Now-a-days a large number of the students, including the very promising ones, are involved in politics, and other non-student like activities including taking drugs, consuming wines, wearing ragged and improper dresses ( in the name of fashion), talking filthily in the campuses and canteens, and many other activities. The students who get admission in Presidency or Jadavpur are among the best in the country. Are their parents bringing them up with this dreams? Do they support the gharoeing of Vice-Chancellors, abusing them, smoking in front of them? If yes, I apologize to them. But it seems to me that no guardian supports this kind of behaviour of the students with their respected teachers. Students are now deman...

Like some Indian states, West Bengal Government also started a scheme for gender empowerment. "Kanyashree Prakalpo" (empowerment of girl child) is good and beneficial program for the poor and backward women in this state. Many students leave their studies for lack of money. This minimul financial assistance will help them a lot. Leaving school means engaging in household chores, tending cattle, looking after young siblings and others and leading a life of pain and anguish. Manual labor and ultimately getting married at an early age culminating in being early  mothers, and facing life-long health hazards and familial as well as societal problems. It seems that the program will enhance retention rate of girl children in the schools and making them economically self-reliant.  I wish a grand success of this program.

                   OBNOXIOUS STUDENTS' POLITICS IN UNIVERSITIES                                           Keshab Chandra  Mandal, Ph. D. Within a few months of chaos and administrative fiasco at Jadavpur University, some students of West Bengal's one of the best universities freed the Vice Chancellor and some of her colleagues after keeping them confined within the chamber for nearly 24 hours.  What is going on in universities? Is it not pinching the academicians? Are the teaching communities not disturbed in all these? How long will these continue? How long the Heads of Higher Academic Institutions be manhandled by the child-like students? Can the students have the right to seize a woman Vice Chancellor? Do the teach...

Just now I went through an article published in The Telegraph dated 6 April, where the above subject issue has been nicely introduced with a little eulogization of the 52 years old Chief Learning Officer for the Henry Ford Museums, who has been hand-picked by President Obama to serve on the National Museums and Library Services Board for a four-year term..While reading the article, I was thinking how can it be introduced in Indian academic institutions and particularly schools and more specifically in my own school, where I am trying out some of the similar innovative methods of learning and make learning interesting and also a source of joy among the students of diverse nature. Being an Asst. Teacher and now as the Head Master of a High School where I face problems are :(a) raising enthusiasm among very poor children, (a) orphan children, (c) motherless/fatherless children, (d) children of families where domestic violence is a daily happening, (d) working parents' childre...

International Women’s Day – a Step towards Gender Empowerment By – Keshab Chandra Mandal, Ph. D. E-Mail: mandalkeshab2013@gmail.com Introduction About one and a half centuries have elapsed since John Stuart Mill, the British Member of Parliament spoke vehemently in the Parliament for the voting right of women. Mill, the foreseer politician and philosopher, perfectly understood the necessity of voting right for women because it is the only weapon by which women can play decisive role in electing representatives of their choice and getting elected in democratic decision-making bodies. However, more than one hundred years later of Mill’s advocacy, the United Nations General Assembly accelerated the process by proclaiming the year 1975 as the International Women’s Year. This declaration was a turning point in the sphere of women’s empowerment. The United Nations Organization also declared 1976-1985 as the Decade for Women with a view to examine the status and rights...

 Taras Shevchenko National University (estd. in 1834) of Kyiv, Ukraine    Date: 19.1.2015  Prof. Svitlana Babenko, Department of Sociology, Taras Shevchenko National University (estd. in 1834) of Kyiv, Ukraine is a great professor. I am thankful to her for kindly inviting me to participate in the XII Ukrainian Scientific-Practical Conference "Challenges to Sociological Theory: Theories of Solidarity and Conflict in Explanation of Current Social Processes to be held on May 21-22. I am willing to attend. This is a great opportunity for me to be acquainted with the social scientists of Europe. Last year I failed to get a visa from the Ukrainian Embassy in New Delhi and I could not participate in the. V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in Ukraine. However, this time I do not like to miss the opportunity. I need financial support and assistance from all quarters to attend the Conference.