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It is newspapers that print stuff that politicians can use to forward their agendas. The someone somewhere may never want to content, of course, has to be as correct as possible read in print. It is also the responsibility of but even headlines do not have the right to say Inewspapers to make sure that they do not filter out things in ways that twist and misshape the heart the unsavory facts that the powerful wish to gloss of truth. The purpose of news is never to implant over or hide from the general public. However, subversive ideas disguised as a commentary to news reporters and editors must also understand that help one or the other side but to communicate facts what they send out has the power to make people as they happen. No rumours. No implied truth. No act… and misdirected views can create a havoc buried facts. Always straight-forward and factual. with perceptions of readers. Courage to speak out Only when newspapers stick to documenting begins with the words that newspapers print and I an occurrence do they get the right to be called agree with Edward R Murrow when he wrote that ‘a as the carriers of history as it happens. Historians nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.’ have been charged with twisting the past, poets We obviously do not want to be governed by have peppered their rhymes, and even story-tellers wolves, therefore, the habit of reading newspapers have let their perceptions highlight singled out must be encouraged from an early age. colours – but newspapers do not have the right to Education remains handicapped without the do any of this. Newspapers are tools that educate support of the will to know what is happening minds in the present and have nothing to do with around the world. This is one reason why the sort of role-play that incites emotions in a newspapers need to report everything without particular direction. So long as they do this, they spicing it up with personal views. We are living in are fine and it does not matter if they are online times when news is also in the palm of our hands or offline in nature. Newspapers are free to carry but the speed with which news gets consumed is advertisements but must not stoop to being one for also racing with the speed with which it is generated one power or the other. and this is where the fault lines can be seen. This Newspapers are powerful entities and, cutthroat race to produce and send out news faster therefore, must embrace the detached stance of an than some other publication online can lead to some observer of truth. They are definitely not here to really disastrous output. It is this element of speedy titillate our thoughts or to hand-hold the reader to dispersal of what is happening around us that can walk on some particular path. If they do this, they result in premature perceptions popping out in will continue to remain the most persuasive tool of most unexpected ways. Look around and you may education. discover how different apps on your smartphone give entirely different perspectives of what is going on. This is why I generally prefer the printed newspaper as it gets all the time to read a situation and document only what stands upright on deeper Arvind Passey scrutiny. [email protected] [email protected] Blog: http://www.passey.info EDUCATION POST | January 2021 | 4 CONTENTS CONTENTS www.theeducationpost.in Vol. IX January, 2021 EDITOR WOMEN MOVERS IN EDUCATION Arvind Passey ASSISTANT EDITOR COVER STORY Devika Bhattacharya 10 COVER PHOTO CREDIT Woman Artist Sheetal Verma (varna_katha on Instagram) A thunderstorm with Art & GRAPHICS a touch of lightening Brij Mohan Singh Arvind Passey Photo S.P. 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EDUCATION POST | January 2021 | 6 EDUCATION POST | January 2021 | 7 EDUCATION POST | January 2021 | 8 EDUCATION POST | January 2021 | 9 COVER STORY COVER STORY maal samajhta hai’ from Lajja and hundreds of others that we have all heard. Yes, all this has definitely done a lot to change the way society in our country has been treating women for centuries. However, all this has changed to quite an extent and we are now in a position to talk about women as being that critically vital person in the family who has the power to educate and inspire. It is not as if the fight or the tussle or the movement for women emancipation is over. There is yet a lot to be done. Yes, despite the fact that we now have women leading corporate board-rooms, blazing a path in politics, commanding troops in the army, leading Arvind Passey decision-making in the civil services, and actively pursuing careers like driving trucks, buses, and auto- rickshaws to name just a few. The truth is that women have shown us that a passion for a profession is as much up their sleeves as is managing a home. They have made WOMAN Mary Kom A thunderstorm with a Jhumpa Lahiri lead campaigns on spreading awareness about breast- feeding, Arifa has embraced self-reliance by promoting touch of lightening the traditional crafts of Kashmir, and Kalpana Ramesh works on the issues relating to water conservation. There are umpteen examples of women achievers who have transcended obstacles that range from severed limbs to social ostracization to fight back and get to a point where life moves up from a simple act of staying alive to living with a goal. Malvika Iyer, for instance, went on to earn a PhD despite having lost her legs in a omen in India have a voice that is heard all over the world. Not bomb blast. that their silence went unheard because it was that deathly quiet Women achievers are everywhere. We know that has probably given birth to movements like ‘beti bachhao, women writers like Kiran Desai, Nayantara Sehgal, beti padhao’ and slogans like ‘Equal rights are not special rights’, ‘Woman is the companion of man’, ‘Gifted with equal mental capacity’, ‘You have everything to take the world in it amply clear that a woman is indeed a thunderstorm your stride’, ‘A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can with a touch of lightening! say in a sermon’, and ‘Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage’.