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Dissent is a mode of articulating difference and questioning social reality, injustice and inequity. Dissent is therefore never
given to us, but is struggled for and achieved through a critical engagement with society and the world. A dissident is one who has the will and the ability to challenge and subvert existing normative social, political and cultural norms in a society by
reproducing his or her own intellectual, aesthetic and ethical values.
A pedagogy of dissent is thus concerned with the process by which citizens become educated as agents of change, and also develop a heightened conscience, courage and
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In today’s world, happiness and wellbeing are often dictated to us by the State or by mass culture and shallow, consumerist and false modes of being. Not to be happy is, by definition, to be marginal, a misfit and a dissenter. In such a world, unhappiness becomes the forbidden universe of those for whom it is an act of dissent against the normative collective experience of conformism, contentment and mediocrity. It also exhorts us to closely examine the meaning of happiness. The pursuit of unhappiness, then, is to confront life in its totality, and presents an alternate horizon of truth, meaning and value for human beings, says renowned philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo.
Writing more of India into Tibetology
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The subject is no longer only about countering the other beyond the mountain China
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The subject is no longer only about countering the other beyond the mountain China
Let’s situate the study of Tibet outside the narrow silo of Sino-Indian relations and within the Himalaya. It might teach us much that we don’t know about India.
As students of Tibet and the Himalaya, we welcome the Indian Army’s recent proposal for its officers to study Tibetology. A media report on January 28 said that officers would study “Tibetan history, culture, and language on both sides of the Line of Actual Control” in order to “counter Chinese influence and propaganda”.
Chancellor Naveen Jindal plans to invest Rs 1,000 crore for futuristic expansion of JGU ANI | Updated: Feb 22, 2021 14:08 IST
New Delhi [India], February 22 (ANI/NewsVoir): Leading Indian industrialist and philanthropist and the Founding Chancellor of O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), Naveen Jindal, has announced an elaborate investment plan of Rs 1,000 Crores for sustained futuristic expansion of the University as per JGU Vision 2030 for the next decade. The Sonipat, Haryana-based JGU was recognized as an Institution of Eminence (IoE) by the Ministry of Education, Government of India in 2019.
The focus of the investment plan will be on academic, infrastructure development, creation of new world-class student facilities, hostels, schools, faculty offices and teaching facilities. The substantial commitment of financial resources for the JGU Vision 2030 by Chancellor Naveen Jindal will bolster efforts to achieve financial, academic and phy