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Rahul Verma

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Sep 2, 2026
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Jul 16, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Rahul Verma

    JNU V-C Santishree Pandit’s tenure: reform, rupture or repetition? (opens the original)

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    One night in November 2025, a scuffle broke out at the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Central Library of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) over facial recognition entry gates, which students viewed as a tool for surveillance. By February 2, 2026, JNU administration had rusticated all four elected office-bearers of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) from the university. President Aditi Mishra, Vice President Gopika K. Babu, General Secretary Sunil Yadav, Joint Secretary Danish Ali and form

  2. Article · Aug 31, 2026 · Rahul Verma

    How ‘JNU-type’ hiring erodes learning across campuses (opens the original)

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    India’s universities have increased in number and size, and still, for many students, this expansion has not translated into better education. The country now has 1,289 universities, 48,246 colleges, and 15,221 standalone institutions, with student enrollment rising to 4.5 crore students, a 31.5% rise from 3.42 crore in 2014-15. However, in many of these institutions, the faculty hiring process is shifting away from decisions made by merit-based peer committees. Administrative bodies often int

  3. Article · Aug 12, 2026 · Rahul Verma

    Leaked papers and lost years in India’s recruitment system (opens the original)

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    Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on July 24 after five weeks of protest over a leaked NEET-UG paper as part of a Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) campaign that drew a 36-day hunger strike by activist Sonam Wangchuk. The leak was not an isolated failure. However, NEET has faced leak controversies in 2021, 2024 and now 2026, following attempted leaks in 2017 and the cancellation of its predecessor exam over a leak in 2015. This year’s cancellation and retest were followed by at le

  4. Article · Jul 16, 2026 · Rahul Verma

    Why adult literacy keeps being relaunched (opens the original)

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    India’s Periodic Labour Force Survey 2023–24 puts overall literacy for persons aged seven and above at 80.9%. That figure is widely cited and technically accurate. It is also the wrong benchmark for adult education policy. The World Bank’s standard measure, adult literacy for persons aged fifteen and above, placed India at 69.3% as recently as the 2011 Census, with rural women at 50.6%. These two statistics describe the same country. The eleven-percentage-point gap between them tells us somethin

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