Volume 1, Issue 1, April 2015, Hyderabad; Contribution: Rs 30/- RECONSTRUCTING EDUCATION for Emancipation An organ in support of free and equitable education from KG to PG and in resistance to all forms of trade in education Quarterly publication of All India Forum for Right to Education (www.aifrte.in) Contents Editorial ...2 AISSY-2014 ...3 AGENDA Campaign against WTO-GATS ...6 Assault of Communalism ...8 Nothing Vedic in ‘Vedic Maths’ ...9 OPINION Caste, Campuses and Contradiction ...10 Jumping the Gun in Rajasthan ...11 PRESS-STATEMENTS Stop Victimising Teachers ...12 Release Prof. Saibaba ...13 Action Against DU Staff ...13 Roll-Back of FYUP ...14 Action Against AMU Teachers ...14 Attack on Students in Patna ...15 Mockery of Teachers’ Day ...15 Attack on Students in Jadavpur ...16 School Closure in Rajasthan ...17 PM’s Mythology of Science ...18 Attack on Students of SOL, DU ...18 IN REMEMBRANCE Sunil Bhai ...19 Com. Pansare ...21 Dabholkar is Done a Gandhi ...22 They Want to Stop Our Songs ...25 We Are All Mukto-Mana ...25 INTERNATIONAL Chilean Artist Destroys Students’ Debt Paper ...27 Editorial Board Executive Editor: Associate Editor: Vikas Gupta Members: Sarwat Ali, Surjit Thockchom & Lokesh Malti Prakash Madhu Prasad • Editorial Contact:
[email protected] EDITORIAL movement and successful completion of the All India Shiksha have become super rich while the rest of the population is becoming SangharshThis is Yatra-2014the first issue(AISSY-2014). of the newsletter The Yatra aftercovered the more inspiring than poorerthat they day can by rakeday, andin huge their profits. conditions A small of life percentage are becoming of corporates more and four hundred districts across the country and carried the demand more fragile and insecure.