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A few days back we all watched shocked while a man held a girl hostage in her own house in Jaipur. Further, he knifed the girl, left her bleeding, and had the audacity to live stream her condition and his act!! All this while the police were dumbly watching from below the building. He kept showing the sign of seven,  indicating the time when he would end his drama. Finally, after threatening the girl all day with a knife and a gun, he gave himself up in the evening, saying the girl had agreed to marriage. After the whole disgusting episode, the girl revealed that she was forced to say yes to marrying the lout for fear of her life. And the reaction of the police takes the cake! They indulgently termed it a lovers' tiff , only terming the method used as wrong! Lover's tiff? What kind of love is this? Threats, abuses, bullying, intimidating,  are all these signs of love? And this cold, calculated savage act is being seen indulgently by the enforcers of law? What have we a...

Have you noticed a child studying in a reputed English medium school in an Indian city? Have you seen the slouched shoulders, the unenthusiastic gait, and the resigned expression on the face? School children who mechanically go through the motions of assembly, classwork, lab work, project work, extracurricular activities without any enthusiasm or genuine interest? Why is this so? Do you also feel our children are going to school to become automated creatures without life, without heart? I have felt this for a long time, especially when I compare my English medium educated child with municipal school students. Children from the lower strata of society, who go to government sponsored vernacular schools, are much better off than our elite school students, I feel. They can play, shout, roam around as per their own sweet will. They have the time to play and run, unlike our children who rush from one tuition to another all day. Municipal school children get a sit-in mid-day meal every...