N Praveenkumar

Higher Education becomes a major concern in India since independence. Enormous steps have been taken to revitalize the higher education system. But still it confronts with several challenges. Among them enrolment ratio is one of the major challenges. Even though several programmes and policies have been launched, the present Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in higher education, in relation to population in 18-23 years age group, is about 12.4 percentages. With an aim to increase the intake capacity in the existing and emerging higher education institutions, Government of India proposed a new Centrally Sponsored Scheme to set up a Model Degree College in each of the 374 Educationally Backward districts in India, identified by a committee headed by Prof. S.P Thyagarajan, former Vice Chancellor, University of Madras. But this scheme is not yet implemented due to the further changes proposed in the 12 th Five Year Plan.             Conc...

Praveen Kumar N & Linet Thomas Abstract T o brand a distinction between ‘a voice for’ and ‘a voice of’ the Dalit, taking into account numerous Dalit literary works, is thought provoking. On close examining one comes to see that the works of the celebrated writer Mulk Raj Anand, an ‘upper-caste sympathizer’, who formerly advocated that ‘a writer should be the fiery voice of the people’ unveiling the pain, pathos and plight of others through his art of writing seems ambiguous. While considering his novel Untouchable , one can sees that the problem of untouchablily has not been presented as it should be. The voice of the central character is sometimes subsumed by the voice of the author. He poses several questions through the character Bhaka, but seems incompetent to response the age old social problems. The untouchables response to the abuses targeted at him becomes suspect. Whereas, Sharankumar Limbale’s The Outcaste depicts the meta-realistic accounts of his life as a ...

      The British ruled India by the divide and rule policy. They promoted religious, ethnic and cultural divisions among their colonies to keep them under control. Unfortunately some of these policies also entered in to the intellectual realm. These divisive ideas were used for interpreting the culture and history of India. Many Hindus have come to believe these ideas, even though a deeper examination reveals they may have no real objective or scientific basis    One of these ideas is that India is a land of two races – The lighter – skinned Aryans and the darker – skinned Dravidians – and that the Dravidians were the original inhabitants of India whom the invading Aryans conquered and dominated.   So the Hindu culture was in fact Dravidian and later the Aryans borrowed it. This idea has been used to turn the people of South India against the people of North India. The 19h century was the era of European imperialism. Many Europeans did ...