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The turn of the takli and the charm of the charkha
G Gautama Though I was born just a few years after the Indian independence, Gandhi was a remote figure, larger than life and an anachronism. Adulation for the father of the nation and the highlights of...
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The ideal of citizenship
Rohit Dhankar The ideal of citizenship is conspicuous by its absence in the current government-led policy debate. It would be useful to look at one important milestone in Indian educational thought to...
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Nai talim: whither the question of relevance?
Nyla Coelho Gandhiji, known to his near ones as Bapu offered India a system of education known as nai talim or National Basic Education. This was proposed in 1937 based on his experience of teaching...
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A work-able way to learning
“I think you are spoiling your child’s career? Why do you send your child to that school? Don’t you think he will be wasting his time in useless outdated activities like gardening, cooking, and...
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Gandhi as my double
Shiv Visvanathan Years ago, legend has it that Mohandas Gandhi was asked by a foreign journalist, “what do you think about Western Civilization?” Gandhi replied promptly and pithily “It would be a good...
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The foreign medium: English and other non-mother tongues in India
A Giridhar Rao Writing in 1938, Gandhi observes: Up to the age of 12, all the knowledge I gained was through Gujarati, my mother tongue. I knew then something of arithmetic, history, and geography....
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Bold and holistic: Mahatma’s education
Pawan Kumar Gupta Phrases like awareness, de-conditioning, openness, responsibility, integrity, ‘seeing things as they are’, ‘out of the box thinking’ are commonly used these days. Mahatma Gandhi...
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The best gift
B Ramdas and Rama Sastry Not even of India’s independence did Gandhi say that it was his best gift, but of his education system he declared that it was his ‘last and best gift’ to the people of India....
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The “unfinished business” of Basic Education
Jane Sahi Often Gandhi’s ideas about education are dismissed as out of date, obsolete, or he is accused of having failed because the government quickly gave up trying to implement Basic Education as a...
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Recovering basic education
How does one pack a wealth of ideas with a small name into three-score-and-four pages? If one can capture the sense (not essence) of a person in a few curved lines reminiscent of a balding head and a...
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