In Kerala, considered a role model for other parts of the country, almost all Muslim children up to the tenth standard are in school, numbers that compare well to that of other communities. Yet, the story is very different when one looks at higher education, writes Deepa A As the principal of Farook College at [...]
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State of Muslim Education in Kerala: An Analysis
Posted in Education, Kerala on August 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Studies in Isolation: The Schools of Ahmedabad
Posted in children, Education, Gujarat on April 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Five years after the atrocities of Gujarat, the state’s education system is taking youngsters backward By Deepa A In a tiny room with blue walls full of charts about birds, fruits and vegetables, 10-year-old Tamanna sits on the floor, drawing on sheets of paper strategically folded to resemble greeting cards. The room, on the first [...]
Tell Us, Gujarat: Who’s to Return Us Our Future?
Posted in children, Education, Gujarat on March 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
2002’s season of hate has left a generation of Muslim girls with little prospect but the dead end of the ghetto. Deepa A reports On a December afternoon, Zahirabanu Yunisbhai sits on a couple of dusty, broken bricks outside her one-room house in Millat Colony, Ahmedabad, helping her sister scrub the vessels spread on [...]
An ongoing study of school textbooks in four states has found stereotypes and biases in Gujarat’s textbooks. The Social Studies textbook for standard five has nine stories on mythology masquerading as history. Deepa A reports. *Gujarat is a border state. Its land and sea boundaries touch the boundaries of Pakistan which is like a den [...]
On Their Own
Posted in children, Education, Gujarat on February 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Gujarat state government appears to have very little planned by way of support for the education of Muslim children. What’s more, the education department appears to be standing in the way of the embattled community’s attempts to help itself By Deepa A It’s difficult to imagine that the bare red bricks and the jutting [...]
Still Suffering, Five Years After
Posted in children, Education, Gujarat, mental health on January 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Five years have passed after the riots, five years in which saplings have become trees and blueprints have taken the shape of buildings. But time seems to have stopped for many families and children who suffered or witnessed atrocities during the 2002 riots, altering their dreams and hopes in unlikely, distressing ways. Deepa A has [...]
Lessons in Despair
Posted in Education, Gujarat on January 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Nearly five years after the Gujarat riots, safety concerns and lack of facilities keep many children away from a decent education By Deepa A Ruksana Banu’s life revolves around the reassuring but monotonous certainties of household chores. Everyday, she washes clothes, cooks meals, cleans vessels and, occasionally, goes for sewing classes near her house. [...]
