It has been a year. Lots of things happened. Some good and some bad. The good news is that my friend's daughter has joined Law School.
The NCERT books are back in news. After the government decided that there was no need for student's to learn about evolution (look at the Cheetahs- they grew their winter fur even after transplanting to India. So where is evolution?) and Mendeleev's periodic table, a new committee has been constituted to design new NCERT books. The panel of experts does not have any body connected with education. It does have Sudha Murty (who is in news every day), Shankar Mahadevan (musician), Vimal Kumar (Badminton player) among others. There are two mathematicians- Manjul Bhargav (who was on NEP 2020 panel) and Sujata Ramadorai.
Of course, there is no need for educationists to be on panel. What do the teachers know?
