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The book gives an eye-witness account of the traumatic events that preceded and followed the partition of the country in a small village, Makhdumpur, in Pakistan. Built around the life story of the author and starting with the description of peaceful village life, it wades through the labyrinthine depths of human bestiality leading to wanton killings of the Hindus soon after partition. The book is divided into three parts. The first part describes the peaceful ...
Secondary education, sandwiched between the much acclaimed basic elementary education and the prestigious higher education, is subject to an ambivalent attitude on the part of the government as well as the general public. As pointed out by the International Commission on Education for the Twenty-First Century (1996): “On the one hand, it (secondary education) is often regarded as the gateway to social and economic advancement. It is accused, on the other hand, ...
Higher Education, in quite a few countries of the world, has been facing a resource crisis. In India, the university institutions have been subjected to an inexplicable ambivalence on the part of the government, both central and states, since early seventies resulting in inadequacy of resources for their maintenance and development. The problem got accentuated with the onset of the New Economic Policy launched in the 1990's. As a fall out, accent was laid on ...