The Quiet Dismantling of Liberal Education at Delhi University
Pravin Raj Singh | 20 April 2025 | The Wire
At its core, a literature syllabus is more than a list of prescribed texts. It is a pedagogical contract, a space where students and educators commit to engaging with the world’s complexities, however uncomfortable. This contract enables critical engagement with power, history, caste, gender and the structures that shape our lives. It is through this space that students learn not just to read, but to question – to not merely absorb, but to interrogate.
The recent restructuring of syllabi at Delhi University under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 marks the calculated unraveling of that contract…