Education

A Janmashtami display describing the Shudra’s role as “serving higher classes” has reignited the fight over the Supreme Court’s stay on UGC’s 2026 equity regulations.

From the Constitution’s unkept promise to have a jurist as SC judge to the empowering value of legal education to ask questions, Justice Bhuyan’s speech acts as breath of fresh air for the citizens.

At the 28th D.S. Borker Memorial Lecture, Justice S. Muralidhar traced India’s judicial pendency crisis to dead cases clogging the docket, an opaque collegium, and a State that drives citizens to court while Senior Advocate Indira Jaising warned of a ‘shadow system’ undermining the Constitution.

Every year, NIRF, India's premier university ranking system under the Education Ministry, publishes a list that students trust and institutions build their reputations around. An RTI based investigation by The Leaflet on India’s largest minority varsity now shows that it misrepresented data and NIRF simply accepted it on face value.

Hours after the Bar Council of India withdrew its directions against NALSAR’s 2026 batch, the Supreme Court took up the matter anyway as the CJI backed the students’ right to protest even though the protest was against him.

Three convocations and a memorial lecture involving CJI Surya Kant have been postponed, declined, or contested in as many weeks, as student anger over his remarks on police brutality against protestors continues to build.

After student protests on infrastructural lethargy, security concerns and health facilities, MNLU Nagpur’s administration has conceded to some demands. But what does this tell us about the broad issues plaguing NLUs?

The National Testing Agency’s unbroken record of paper leaks, glitches, and mismanagement is not a story of institutional failure alone but of unconstitutional centralisation, corporate capture of public examinations, and a federal structure being quietly dismantled.