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A letter from the teachers to the teachers of Punjabi University (Part of the Campaign by Teachers for Intervention in Education) 19 September 2012 Dear Friend,     The PUTA polls are over, and yet not over. The electoral process has been stalled, and on ridiculous alibis - evidence enough that substantial reasons do not exist for doing what has been done. Everyone has witnessed the reluctance of the authorities to read the clear-as-daylight orders of the Honourable Court in the right spirit. The Court has obviously intervened in defence of democracy and the rule of law. That intervention, however, has been wilfully so read as to offend democracy and to assert an excess of arbitrary power.  Anyone can see that much more is stake than just elections.     But the collective aspirations of the teachers cannot be sealed and silenced in any box. Indeed, those aspirations have been already aired and the message has gone out loud and clear that the n...

"Judge justly, that you too may be judged so. " One day each one of us will be judged. And each one of us must judge one day. That is the day when we are called upon to stand by that light within us which discerns the truth behind the veil. That day has arrived today. There are those who tried to put off that day for ever. They thought they could sit behind glass walls and ignore us. They thought they were gods, eternally seated on their thrones. They isolated us, the independent-minded teachers. Let us tell them what they have done with the power which is given to humans to make the world more beautiful, more equal, more just, less evil. Let us tell them the truth with our silent act of judgement. Let us wield our vote like an instrument of speech. So that bad history does not repeat itself. ----- Panel of candidates: Rajesh Kumar (Department of English) – President Surjit Singh (Department of Punjabi) - Secretary ...

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Punjabi University, Patiala  Declaration of Objectives During the last two decades changes have been underway in education which aim at making the economic ‘reforms’ a success. This is part of a larger agenda of treating private and corporate profits as the highest good under the so-called new economic order. Education is being subjected to deep-rooted and widespread perversions in a systematic and studied manner. Vast numbers of students are being deprived of any opportunity for meaningful education. The overall standards of education are dropping. Teachers are being robbed of the space in which they can respond ably to the call of their vocation; they are being reduced to insignificant appendages of a dehumanizing system that treats profits as more important than human beings. The system of recruitment of the faculty has been slowly distorted so much that competence, scholarship and legitimate claims to employment no longer have any value. It surprises no o...