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This is the story of Sarah tucker in whose name there was a school started in palayamkottai. - By Cynthia Stephen 

Her brother John tucker was an official working in the area and she lived in her home in England.. he used to write to her every week. He mentioned to her that the women of the area were hardly seen outside, and one day when he went to a village and felt thirsty he knocked on the door of a house to ask for water. A little girl opened the door and seeing him, fled from him in fear. He asked why, and was told that they were not allowed to move about and were kept only within their own houses, and were not allowed to study.

He wrote to Sarah about this and she was very dismayed, and collected as much money as she could - about 40 pounds - to send to him to start a school.for girls. Accordingly the brother started the school and somehow they ran it for 13 years with support that she raised and with other money he was able to manage. At last he confessed that they could no longer keep them open. Sarah who was in frail health began to pine away at the loss of her dream. One.day three of her friends came to visit her and asked why she was so sad...she related the story and said that she was heartbroken that her dream school had to be closed down, she felt her life was not worth living as a result. Shortly thereafter she passed away. Her three friends were determined to see that Sarah 's dream would not die, so they took up the challenge, raised over 300 pounds and sent it to revive the school. It still survives and in the districts of palayamkottai and Tirunelveli at last 10 lakh - one million girls have passed out of the school and college. What a legacy.

 About the  Dr Ashok Da. Ranade Memorial Trust  By Anjum Rajabali https://youtu.be/q58emTQwgoY  the trust has been created in the name of Dr. Ashoke Da Ranade  who barely needs an introduction. Large body of work that he has left behind. And yet it is very difficult to introduce such a multi-dimensional, multi-talented personality. He is primarily remembered as one of the finest minds in the field of musicology and music scholarship the world over, when he was regarded as one of the finest external musicologists of his time.

The range of subjects that he studied and excelled in as a scholar is unbelievably large --from music to dance to theater. Literature, criticism, mythology, Yoga, and several others which he which he found stimulating.
over and above that he was a composer and a musician himself a vocalist. He has 24 books to his credit. He has left behind a huge amount of knowledge for all of us to gain by. and yet there was so much more that he had planned to do could do before death stole him from us 3 abruptly 12 years ago.

Introducing Prof Pankaj Chandra:   https://youtu.be/BBSds1clnbU
Dr Aneesh Pradhan: Professor Pankaj Chandra is the Vice Chancellor of Ahmedabad University. He was the Director of the IIM Bangalore and Professor of Operations & Technology Management at IIM Ahmedabad. He has been a full time tenured faculty at McGill University and IIM Ahmedabad and a visiting professor at various universities overseas.  He has served on several committees of Government of India and currently serves on policy committees related to the New Education Policy as well on international Supply Chain Resilience.

Professor Chandra’s research and teaching interests include Manufacturing Management, Supply Chain Coordination, Building Technological Capabilities, and higher education policy. His recent book titled ‘Building Universities that Matter’ studies issues of Governance, Change & Institution Building in Indian Universities. He is involved in building a liberal arts driven research University and within it, a School of Performing and Visual Arts.

  12th ADR Memorial Lecture:  Integrating Arts: Building  Education towards Freedom  https://youtu.be/hRabhojJW5I 
 
Why does any society want its people to be educated? And what is the role of arts within it? In this day and age of technology, the big question that one grapples with is whether education is making you think and how does one learn to think. We believe that by integrating arts, one is able to view the world more comprehensively, bring extended emotion into education, and build skills that are more diverse to address complex questions. The talk will explore this world of how art is presented in a liberal arts framework and what stands in its way in today’s India.

Q & A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCJADGeLiLI

Questions raised in the chat box.
raginipasricha:    Artists across the world are protesting against multiple injustices and are being killed, incarcerated and banned for doing so by oppressive regimes. Their despair and oppression are very visible.  Is arts education or even interdisciplinary practice being promoted in India today and if freedom is to be taught as a cherished value, is the political system today supportive of it and financing it? Or are we talking at cross purposes? Social problem solving and pragmatism don’t go hand in hand. Academicians who work with sub altern movements are being called anti nationals and imprisoned
Stan Lobo:   Your words "if freedom is to be taught as a cherished value" is the question. Quoting our forefathers is the best way to  escape responsibility what we need to do 'NOW'.  We have some of the best thinkers on education in the form of Gandhi, Ambedkar, JK, Tagore.the question still remains : what have we done to Education system in India today inspite of having the best thoughts and intentions? What are the systemic changes, questioning those holding position of power in education, holding Educationists accountable for what needs to be done ?
 
At the end Chaitanya Kunte of the ADR Archives, Pune gave the vote of thanks

for Lectures upto now: Go to playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO579_0r1kCSHNo429aJWxOgci7LdRabX 

How The New Censors Muzzle A Million People!
   https://freespeechcollective.in/how-the-new-censors-muzzle-a-million-people/ November 27, 2023  NewsClick, a relatively small outfit, was somehow perceived to be a ‘problem’. Perhaps the problem was not so much NewsClick as the range of movements it covers. Just prior to the government’s unwelcome attention, NewsClick had covered the farmers’ movement quite thoroughly, coverage that drew significant viewership, and not just in India...

The Indian people are quite often mistaken to be passive. They do not rise up in revolt periodically against the terrible burden of oppression that they carry; this is a criticism commonly levelled against them. Yet, this mass of ‘passive’ people routed Mrs Gandhi in 1977 and asserted the primacy of Indian democracy...

Of course, the government and its cohorts are anxious to control the large number of individuals using social media; to do this, they have to come up with measures different from what sufficed during the earlier Emergency.

In other words, a technological change has taken place which makes the task of muzzling the press rather different from what it used to be. If you want to muzzle a million or more people, you cannot use the Emergency instrument, which was direct censorship...from “Keeping Up the Good Fight: From the Emergency to the Present Day” 

What are the new censors — official and unofficial —to do? They make an example of a few to create a chilling effect.