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The best don't always rise to the top but merit isn't a lost cause

New Delhi, April 16 -- In any field-be it business, politics, administration, academia or civil society-there is an unspoken assumption that those at the highest echelons are there because they are su... Read More


India's consensus on school education makes space for optimism

New Delhi, April 2 -- When big changes happen slowly, we don't notice them. Climate change is a glaring example. Slow is anything that happens over a human lifetime or more. There have been massive ch... Read More


Three-language formula: Chhattisgarh offers an education case study

New Delhi, March 5 -- Growing up mostly in Bhopal, then the capital of undivided Madhya Pradesh, I was exposed to a range of language variants that we bundle between Hindi and Urdu, all of which I lov... Read More


India's education system must adapt better to the real world out there

New Delhi, Feb. 19 -- Almost every field of work needs three kinds of capacities: technical, social-human and operational. Their mix required in any field is determined by the nature of the work in th... Read More


Teaching children isn't easy: It takes a lot more than most of us realize

New Delhi, Feb. 5 -- The ruins of the fortress were a couple of kilometres away. The class had returned from a history walk there. The teacher gave bananas, which she had got from her home, to the stu... Read More