Dev N Pathak Dear home: Letters from an NRB SALA BADAL GAYA- The Politics of Friendship or looseness of commonsense !  Seldom do we find a man not seeking for change; and it is rare to hear of a woman’s disdain of the continuity with the same brand; outdated is the sight when people had limited choice and thereby restricted to status quo. The saga of humans fascinated with change, infatuated with the variety, seduced by something more in vogue and obsessed with the idea of having ‘it’ more and more, is indeed long. I need not tread down the memory lane for making sense of the historical... 

Dev N Pathak Dear home: Letters from an NRB Naya Bihar-A Note on the debatable model of Development By Dev N Pathak As an ordinary individual in Bihar, I am fond of Nitish Kumar’s politics. He is politically shrewd; he is personally suave; he is instinctively sober; he is no- nonsense man; he is interested in working; he wants his mandarin to be efficient and proactive; he does not like the notoriously corrupt and callous babudom; he wants to ensure that his people enjoy the luxury of unhindered electricity supply; he is uncomfortable with the feudal-mafia-contractor regime. So on so forth.... 

Dev N Pathak Dear home: Letters from an NRB Ek Mamuli Sawal Questioning in the age of anti-questioning By Dev N. Pathak Remember Rahul Gandhi’s dig at the abysmal culture of questioning in the classroom at Saint Stephens’ when he was a student? Rahul didn’t say anything new. It’s been rife in the educational discourse and especially in the discourses on school education in India. Pedagogues have been often chastised for not allowing students to ask questions. However, in spite of the platitude being mouthed on the issue, we do notice a strong culture against the humane disposition to... 

Dev N. Pathak Dear home: Letters from an NRB Bolke lab Azad hain tere: Do speak, for your lips are free For a Politics of analytical Truth By Dev N. Pathak bolke lab azaad hai tere, bol zubaan ab tak teri hai….echoed the intellectual unrest in the civil society of Pakistan and became a historically significant expression for entire south Asia. The English translation of the whole nazm, famously penned by Faiz Ahmad Faiz, reads, ……….           …………..Do speak up, for your lips/thoughts are yet free …………..      ………………Do... 

Dev N Pathak Dear home: Letters from an NRB Tera Kya hoga Teacher! A critical discourse on Teacher-education in India By Dev N Pathak Folks in Bihar have been heard saying, “Lalu ji ne charwaha vidayalaya khola aur shiksha ko maweshi ka chara bana diya, Nitish ji ne ek kadam aage badhkar saare charwaaho (uneducated) ko shikshak bana diya…(Lalu opened schools for the cow-herders and converted education into the fodder for cattle, while Nitish Kumar progressed upon it and employed all the uneducated people as teachers). Needless to go for the literal translation of the words; the invitation...