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Books alone will help us define our identity: Education minister Pradhan |  India News

Books alone will help us define our identity: Education minister Pradhan | India News

Dharmendra Pradhan

He also inaugurated the National Digital Library which includes more than 1000 books in digital and audio format in 22 Indian languages ​​along with English

Education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday said that we need to nurture a book-loving society, as books alone will help us define our identity and navigate into the future.

Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the 52nd New Delhi World Book Fair (NDWBF), Pradhan was lauded by India’s rich heritage of books and literature.

Mankind has an uninterrupted love affair with books. Be it the scrolls of Egypt, the palm leaf and bhojpatra’ manuscripts of India, humans have always found the written word irresistible. Books give us humans our peculiar identities, he said.

He added that book writing, publishing and selling should be seen as a labor of love instead of commerce.

As far as India is concerned, books will never lose their charm. As the knowledge century further unfolds, the book alone will help us define our identity and navigate into the future. a book is an intellectual product, not a commodity. Book writing, publishing and selling therefore cannot just be commerce, it has to be a labor of love, Pradhan said.

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We want to define the future of learning: Byju Raveendran

We want to define the future of learning: Byju Raveendran

New Delhi: Edtech startup Byju’s wants to define the future of learning in India and overseas as learning takes an online path, that may stay beyond the pandemic, said a top executive.

“I want to define the future of learning and create a part of it and find that ideal blended format of learning. I will be happy if I can play a role in defining the online schools of tomorrow,” Byju Raveendran, founder and CEO, Byju’s at the ongoing Resurgence TiEcon Delhi–NCR virtual event on Thursday.

Raveendran said that it is all about finding the right balance between being technology driven, media-enabled content first strategy and believing in the power of self-learning. “Any student who learns on our platform are self-learners so what I am trying to make popular is the love for learning in students not just in India but around the world.”

Edtech firms like Byju’s got a shot in the arm due to the pandemic induced lockdown when learning went online.

“Our biggest challenge was how to bring screen learning in the mainstream, but lockdown led people to take up online education. Our classrooms will be changing for the first time in 100 years,” said Raveendran

New York University settles anti-Semitism case with Education Department

New York University settles anti-Semitism case with Education Department

In what’s believed to be the first case that’s come up since President Donald Trump’s executive order last year aimed at addressing anti-Semitism on campuses, the Education Department and New York University have settled a complaint that alleged NYU hasn’t done enough to prevent “ a hostile environment” for Jews on the campus.

The settlement, in which NYU acknowledged no wrongdoing, and the Education Department’s decision to take on the case was praised by some for recognizing what some believe to be a contemporary form of anti-Semitism, in which criticism of Israel goes beyond opposing its policies to opposing its very existence.

A lawyer representing a Jewish Mexican NYU graduate who brought the complaint said the settlement could have wide-ranging implications affecting how universities handle campus debates over Middle East policy, to the point of disciplinary students. The settlement also raised concerns from some advocates of campus free speech that it could stifle criticism of Israel on campus.

Under the agreement to settle the department’s investigation of the complaint, the university, among other things, agrees to add discrimination based on shared ancestry and ethnic characteristics, including anti-Semitism, to its nondiscrimination and antiharassment policy; address and ameliorate such discrimination on campus,