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Hunger Games
In India’s education capital, one quickly learns that books are not enough to feed the mind. When I first arrived in Pune, often hailed...

Kuldeep Ambekar
Aug 73 min read


Jadunath Sarkar and the Fall of his Empire of Truth
Inconvenient Truths – the NCERT Textbook Row India’s schoolbooks are finally lifting the veil on a past too long buried in euphemism and...

Shoumojit Banerjee
Jul 246 min read


The Curators of Conquest
Inconvenient Truths – the NCERT Textbook Row India’s schoolbooks are finally lifting the veil on a past too long buried in euphemism...

Shoumojit Banerjee
Jul 236 min read


Who’s Afraid of Hindu History?
Inconvenient Truths - the NCERT Textbook Row India’s schoolbooks are finally lifting the veil on a past too long buried in euphemism and...

Shoumojit Banerjee
Jul 226 min read


Rewriting or Restoring? NCERT and the Myth of Secular Historiography
Inconvenient Truths – the NCERT Textbook Row India’s schoolbooks are finally lifting the veil on a past too long buried in euphemism and...

Shoumojit Banerjee
Jul 215 min read


India’s Schooling Safari
In India’s crowded education marketplace, choosing your child’s school is as much about faith as foresight. My son was just eight months...

Ruddhi Phadke
Jul 193 min read


What Tribal Students Teach Us About Equitable Education
In the heart of India’s most neglected regions, students are proving that talent is universal even when opportunity is not. In a nation...
Dr. Atul Dhakne and Dr. Tejas Ahire
Jul 174 min read


Global Rankings, Local Blind Spots
The world’s most-watched university league tables reveal more about academic geopolitics than teaching quality, exposing the fallacy of...

Uday K. Chakraborty
Jul 35 min read


The English Tax
India’s colonial hangover and corporate impatience are shrinking its talent pool by confusing fluency with merit. Earlier this week, a...

Anuradha Rao
Jun 263 min read


A Distant Dream
A flagship foreign scholarship for Maratha students is tangled in red tape, outdated rules, and bureaucratic apathy. When it was launched...

Kuldeep Ambekar
Jun 143 min read


A Waiver in Name Only
Maharashtra’s ambitious 100 percent tuition fee waiver for girls risks becoming another well-meaning policy undone by poor...

Kuldeep Ambekar
May 313 min read


NEP 2020: A Historic Shift in Indian Education
NEP 2020 is more than reform—it's a roadmap to unlock the potential of every student and power India’s progress. The National Education...

Amit Gorkhe
May 293 min read


Indian-origin college student from US dies in Bahamas
NEW YORK: An Indian-origin college student from the US died in the Bahamas after accidentally falling from a hotel balcony just days...
PTI
May 142 min read


Dombivli teenager passes SSC exam days after father's death in Pahalgam attack
Thane: It was a bittersweet moment for Dhruv Hemant Joshi (16) when he scored an impressive 80 per cent marks in his Class 10 examination...
PTI
May 131 min read


Civil Defence course to be introduced in Mumbai University curriculum
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has decided to introduce a civil defence course in the Mumbai University curriculum, acknowledging the...
PTI
May 112 min read


NEET held in Ranchi amid stringent security
Ranchi: Medical entrance exam NEET-UG was held amid stringent security in Ranchi on Sunday, officials said. Prohibitory orders under...
PTI
May 41 min read


Merit’s Mask: How India’s Civil Service Sidelines Social Justice
Merit’s Mask: How India’s Civil Service Sidelines Social Justice The UPSC stands at a perilous crossroads as backlogs, lateral entry and...

Santosh Rasve
May 14 min read


Silencing the Silencers
Few institutions in the modern world combine pomp, pedigree and provocation quite like the Oxford Union. The hallowed wood-panelled...

Eeshani Bendale
Apr 263 min read


NEET aspirant from Delhi found dead in Kota refused to sit for May 4 exam, wanted 1 more year
KOTA: Ranjit Sharma, a carpenter in Delhi's Tuglakabad, sobbed uncontrollably outside the mortuary of a hospital here as he waited to...
PTI
Apr 262 min read


India Needs a National Education Service
In our last piece, we discussed the need for a separate education budget. But the conversation can’t stop at allocation. A bigger budget,...

Anuradha Rao
Apr 243 min read
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