<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed><author name="Niranjan Kumar"><item><title>﻿Caste census: Politics and ramifications</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/%ef%bb%bfcaste-census-politics-and-ramifications/</link><pubDate>September 1, 2021, 6:27 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/937918f4_4470_P_1_mr-1-1.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The demand for a caste-based census raises many questions regarding its need and aim, its honesty concerning the welfare of backward castes and intention towards national interest.</excerpt></item><item><title>Bharat Jodo Andolan will ascertain unity in diversity</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/bharat-jodo-andolan-will-ascertain-unity-in-diversity/</link><pubDate>August 12, 2021, 10:29 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/fccf0d42_3925_P_1_mr.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>As the 75th Independence Day approaches, it cannot be denied that in the making of New India, PM Modi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Andolan’ is the need of the hour and the education sector will have a paramount role to play in bringing about this change.</excerpt></item><item><title>ANALYSING THE NEED AND RELEVANCE OF CUCET IN HIGHER EDUCATION</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/india/analysing-the-need-and-relevance-of-cucet-in-higher-education/</link><pubDate>July 17, 2021, 4:38 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/815c3124_3455_P_1_mr-1.jpg</image><category>India</category><excerpt>The basic concept underlying the Common Entrance Test (CET) for higher educational institutions is to free students from the stress of various examinations, besides providing them the opportunity to test their calibre through the same yardstick of...</excerpt></item><item><title>CULTURALLY COMBATING COVID-19: AN INDIAN PARADIGM</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/india/culturally-combating-covid-19-an-indian-paradigm/</link><pubDate>June 2, 2021, 1:38 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/f922d0d0_2900_P_2_mr-1.jpg</image><category>India</category><excerpt>There’s no doubt that coronavirus will have to be fought on scientific and medical grounds, but this doesn’t mean that one must ignore the time-tested traditions and elements of Indian culture.</excerpt></item><item><title>Why National Curriculum Framework must be ‘national’</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/why-national-curriculum-framework-must-be-national-2/</link><pubDate>April 16, 2021, 3:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/e3bc5881_2319_P_4_mr.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The 2005 National Curriculum Framework, introduced during the UPA-led government, is in need of review and revision. Mainly because the textbooks produced as per the framework have glaring omissions and anomalies, which are depriving school-going ...</excerpt></item><item><title>Why National Curriculum Framework must be ‘national’</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/why-national-curriculum-framework-must-be-national/</link><pubDate>April 15, 2021, 6:39 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Webp.net-resizeimage-78-1.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The 2005 National Curriculum Framework, introduced during the UPA-led government, is in need of review and revision. Mainly because the textbooks produced as per the framework have glaring omissions and anomalies, which are depriving school-going ...</excerpt></item><item><title>Breaking India into fragments through narrow domestic walls</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/breaking-india-into-fragments-through-narrow-domestic-walls/</link><pubDate>February 22, 2021, 8:04 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/99a9523e_1731_P_2_mr-2.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>In its bid to challenge the BJP before the upcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress has begun a dangerous narrative which pits Bengalis against ‘outsiders’.</excerpt></item><item><title>The curious case of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ in Bengal</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/the-curious-case-of-jai-shri-ram-in-bengal/</link><pubDate>February 11, 2021, 8:39 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/mamta--300x169.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Mamata Banerjee’s aversion to the chants of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and her supporters’ belief that the slogan is a sign of the imposition of north Indian culture upon Bengal is inaccurate. One only needs to see the tradition of Ramkathas in Bengal to unde...</excerpt></item><item><title>Who gave pseudo-intellectuals the right to malign national symbols?</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/who-gave-pseudo-intellectuals-the-right-to-malign-national-symbols/</link><pubDate>January 27, 2021, 8:35 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/99f33717_1455_P_4_mr-1.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>From making statements about cancelling the Republic Day celebrations to writing derogatory articles on the cow, certain misdirected intellectuals in the country have a tendency of showing insensitive or downright hostility towards important natio...</excerpt></item><item><title>Mind your language in national interest</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/mind-your-language-in-national-interest/</link><pubDate>December 17, 2020, 7:20 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/5ecd34bb_1002_P_5_mr-1.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>One of the salient features of the NEP 2020 is its emphasis on Indian languages. If its recommendations for teaching young learners in their mother tongue along with imparting knowledge of regional Indian languages are followed well, it has the po...</excerpt></item><item><title>How UPSC exams are getting lost in translation</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/how-upsc-exams-are-getting-lost-in-translation/</link><pubDate>November 28, 2020, 11:59 am</pubDate><image></image><category>Others</category><excerpt>For many Hindi-medium examinees, the Civil Services exams are a tougher game to win, thanks to misleading, incomprehensible or incorrect translations in the question papers. The UPSC must pay attention to this issue as it ultimately impinges on th...</excerpt></item><item><title>Why new India needs to learn Vedic mathematics</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/why-new-india-needs-to-learn-vedic-mathematics/</link><pubDate>October 3, 2020, 5:31 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/peace.png</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>One of the goals of the new National Education Policy is to restore and re-establish ‘Indian-ness’.
Vedic mathematics can prove to be an important instrument in this ‘rediscovery of India’.</excerpt></item><item><title>NEP 2020: Beginning of a new era in education</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/nep-2020-beginning-of-a-new-era-in-education/</link><pubDate>August 24, 2020, 6:41 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ramesh.png</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>National Education Policy has lofty vision and goals and will prepare India to meet future challenges. But all depends its implementation.</excerpt></item><item><title>A much-needed change to meet 21st-century challenges</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/%ef%bb%bfcaste-census-politics-and-ramifications/</link><pubDate>September 1, 2021, 6:27 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/937918f4_4470_P_1_mr-1-1.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Embodying the great legacy of Indian tradition, inspired by the vision of Mahatma Gandhi, and committed to the Constitution, given by Dr B.R. Ambedkar, the new National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 seems well-prepared to meet the global challenges ...</excerpt></item><item><title>Why online education is not a viable option for students</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/%ef%bb%bfcaste-census-politics-and-ramifications/</link><pubDate>September 1, 2021, 6:27 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/937918f4_4470_P_1_mr-1-1.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Education is one of the sectors which has been severely impacted by Covid-19. Perhaps the only silver lining in this crisis was online teaching, which some affluent schools and universities took recourse to using platforms such as Zoom, Microsoft ...</excerpt></item></author></feed>