Reform follows discontent at Tata institute

High Intensity Laser Physics at the Tata Institute

Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India. The Institute currently has a 20 terawatt (TW), 30 femtosecond (fs) table top chirped pulse amplifi cation (CPA) titanium -sapphire laser facility and will have a fully functional 100 TW, 25 fs facility by the middle of 2011. This upgradation would propel existing research at the Institute to address ultraintense lasermatter interaction studie...

Mapuche Demands during Educational Reform, the Penguin Revolution and the Chilean Winter of Discontent

Enduring inequalities in Chile’s education system are both a socio-economic and ethno-national problem. Student protests in 2006 and 2011 are representative of growing public concerns over the neoliberal socio-economic model adopted by respective governments since the military regime ended in 1990. Education has also become a contested space in which the recognition of indigenous rights – and c...

Institutionalized Discontent

Examining past experiences of student activism at Berkeley this article suggests that the present storm of political correctness sweeping American universities represents more than just another of the periodic crusades that have disrupted academic life over the years. The current wave of activism is different largely because the ever-present minorities of militant faculty and student activists ...

Distance, delay, and discontent.

Discontent and Discourse

By most counts, the world is a better place today than it was in ancient times. First and foremost, we have the comforts that come from our greater collective wealth. But even apart from that, we do not live in perpetual fear that another nation’s marauding army will come and take away our land and belongings. When we return home from dining out, we do not expect to find that strangers have bro...