Sagari Gupta

The government’s school reform agenda promises transformation, but delivery gaps in staffing, infrastructure and funding threaten to blunt its impact. India’s school education system is undergoing its most significant structural change in a decade. From the 2026-27 academic session, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is implementing three reforms simultaneously: a mandatory third language from Class 6, computational thinking (CT) and artificial intelligence (AI) integrated into...

War widens every fault line, but the status of women bears the deepest fracture. War does not affect all bodies in the same way. It reorganises power, access, and survival along lines that already exist. Gender is one of those lines. When conflict begins, it does not create new inequalities. It sharpens the old ones and makes them harder to ignore. The philosophical case for taking this seriously is straightforward. If a society's baseline distribution of rights, resources, and recognition is...

A child fills a metal container from a deceptively clean water source. But the water carries heavy metals leached from shattered piping and chemical residues from a bombardment that occurred months ago. The war that caused this contamination may have already moved its frontlines elsewhere, or even signed a ceasefire. Yet its effects remain, entering bodies and shaping the genetic future of a generation. We are conditioned to measure war in immediate, visible metrics: casualties, territorial...