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Learning and attendance
I americium a prof and recovered the article, “Mandating pupil presence, erasing learning” (Editorial page, January 2), thought-provoking. The refusal of stasis is the moot constituent to justice whether we are facilitating find oregon simply disseminating information. The question of curiosity versus compliance, prime of teaching and surveillance, coercion and dialogic encounters are bound to disturbance the mind. Ensure engagement of the mind.
Udai Bhan Singh,
Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh
As a assemblage student, I recovered the reflections connected transforming pupil attendance rules to beryllium close and a refreshing take. I would not miss a time if classes were engaging and worthy the clip they take. The acquisition of my friends successful different institutes echoes however carnal beingness seems to beryllium the precedence for the medication successful colleges portion learning takes a backmost spot and captious reasoning is forgotten. My peers and I often walk lecture clip studying from YouTube oregon finishing pending assignments. It would beryllium transformative if much clip was spent teaching students however to think, and not what to.
Avvishi Saxena,
Agra, Uttar Pradesh
Contamination, close to life
A authorities that fails to support its h2o sources from contamination cannot credibly assertion to uphold the close to beingness nether Article 21. The Supreme Court of India has repeatedly held that this close includes entree to cleanable h2o and a steadfast environment. When these are compromised, the law warrant becomes illusory. The incidental successful Indore exposes the fragility of our enforcement machinery and the persistent disconnect betwixt argumentation announcements and ground-level implementation. Flagship programmes specified arsenic the Jal Shakti Abhiyan, Swachh Bharat Mission and the National Water Mission hazard being reduced to slogans successful the lack of monitoring and accountability.
Suchhanda Banerjee,
Chandannagar, West Bengal
Women’s emancipation
The judgement of the Supreme Court, successful Belide Swagath Kumar vs. State of Telangana & Another, stating that fiscal dominance of a hubby implicit his woman volition not magnitude to cruelty and definite different findings volition permission women successful despair. Describing the concern of the wife, an technologist who was asked to resign and stay a housewife, and who had to plead with her hubby to conscionable her regular needs, arsenic a reflection of the “daily deterioration and teardrop of marriage”, fails to recognise women’s rights and law guarantees. Further, to picture a man’s full fiscal power of the woman arsenic a reflector reflection of Indian nine is refusing to spot crushed realities. The Court seems to beryllium oblivious to the plight of the women and its refusal to travel retired of the past reinforces antheral chauvinism. To picture the actions of the woman seeking enactment against the hubby arsenic “a gateway oregon a instrumentality to settee scores” is refusing to spot the helpless quality of women whose emancipation the Constitution seeks.
N.G.R. Prasad,
Chennai
