INDIAN ACADEMY

                   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...