Defend the Defenceless
For those ensnared in the ruthless NRC process, the threat of losing their citizenship is not just a legal ordeal–it is a personal catastrophe. Lives are upended, identities stripped away, and the emotional wounds linger long after the fight.

At Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), we have been on the frontline for over five years, witnessing this suffering firsthand. Our Assam Team doesn’t just provide legal aid—we fight for dignity, for hope, for survival.

Our efforts include:

*    Providing critical legal aid in foreigners’ tribunals and courts.
*    Offering counseling and dialogue to bring hope to those in despair.
*    Delivering para-legal and direct legal support to individuals and families in need.

The clock is ticking. Lives hang in the balance. We need your help—NOW.

Every contribution ensures that another innocent person is not left defenceless. Stand with us. Act today.
Your support can transform Lives!
CJP

Let Science awaken you (not weaken)
IIT IIM UPSC NEET. Often the inability of youth to open up their bottled-up feelings to the right person, who can give timely & correct advice, makes them take extreme steps.

Teachers and Parents should be trained to spot in students, the warning signs like depression, lack of enthusiasm, sudden withdrawal from friends, falling grades, low self-esteem and most importantly devote time to listen to their fears and anxieties.

Parents should identify the natural flair of children and allow them to pursue that, instead of pushing them to do things they dislike and try to live their own unrealised dreams through their children. Children don’t behave like the stock market to expect a return on investment.

The poem I wrote keeping in mind the recent Kota IIT craze suicides.

Let Science awaken you (not weaken):

Let science inspire not perspire (make you tired)
Let science awaken you not weaken you
Let science give birth to ideas, not to end life
Let science propel you not pressurise you
Let science inspire to dream not lead to depression
Let science move the scoreboard of life and not stop with score in board (exam)
Let science simplify not complicate
Let science teach possibilities are infinite, only our limiting beliefs are finite
Let science open our hearts and not close our minds.
T S Karthik

Centre vs Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu’s refusal to adopt the three-language formula has irked the Centre. A two-language policy has been in place in Tamil Nadu for decades, and there is no ground to say that it is going to change any time soon. The three-language policy is also not new, and its own record is rather chequered, even in states where it has been in place for a long time. In the Hindi belt of the north, there is no instance of the use of this formula to introduce children to a contemporary language of another state. One can’t find even a private school in, say, Uttar or Madhya Pradesh where Punjabi or Tamil has the status of a third language under the haloed formula.

Of course, this is not the whole story of the language “problem”. Until quite recently, policy circles in education were acutely aware of the history of this problem. After Independence, language was perceived as a key factor to be addressed for the goal of national integration. In fact, the history of this perception goes further back. As Independence came closer, the issue became charged with contestation and claims. If India is to have a “national” language, which one will it be? This question was debated in the Constituent Assembly. A related question was that of the official language of the Union government. Neither of the two questions proved simple or easy to resolve. There were no obvious answers, although many leaders of the freedom movement had thought there were. Their attempt to build a consensus was fraught with issues simmering within the language they had assumed to be the answer to India’s quest for a national language. Like any other language, Hindi had more than one variety, and the struggle within its politico-literary world was quite intense if not bitter.

 The Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) has served India since the 1920s to resolve many difficult debates concerning the practice of federal governance in education. This forum has been in disuse over the recent past, and the consequences are now surfacing. In truth CABE was the only formal instrument available for building consensus and keeping everybody in touch with what was happening in education. Reading the archival record of CABE debates is like absorbing the history of the system of education. The solutions that CABE offered were not mandatory or final, but a rare awareness of what will work and what will not.
Krishna Kumar

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Vol 57, No. 38, March 16 - 22, 2025