More incarcerated students will soon have access to an education from Morehouse College after receivig a federal investment of $1.6 million from Congresswoman Nikema Williams.
By Victor Trammell Photo credits: Dustin Chambers for The New York Times Morehouse College is committed to expanding opportunity and prosperity for underrepresented communities. Faculty from the HBCU’s Andrew Young Center for Global Leadership (AYCGL) program has been teaching humanities courses to men and women in Georgia prisons and rehabilitation programs since 2020. The goal […]
Few understood Bihar better than social scientist Shaibal Gupta January 29, 2021, 8:59 PM IST
Avijit Ghosh is a associate editor with The Times of India. He is addicted to films, music, cricket and football and not necessarily in that order. He is the author of Bandicoots in the Moonlight, Cinema Bhojpuri, 40 Retakes, and now, Up Campus, Down Campus, a novel set in 1980s JNU. He tweets from the handles @avijitghoshtoi and @cinemawaleghosh LESS. MORE
Meeting Shaibal Gupta was indispensable for any journalist on assignment to Bihar. Be it the state’s assembly election, its political economy or its industrial sector, the social scientist was a one-stop storehouse of knowledge, his perspective much sought-after. Gupta, who passed away on Thursday after prolonged illness in Patna, belonged to that rare breed of academics who could offer both information and insight. He was 67.