India’s war on coaching centres is being fought everywhere except where it matters most. In June 2025, the Ministry of Education constituted a high-level committee to examine students’ growing dependence on coaching centres and to recommend measures to reduce it. The MoE’s order is unusually candid in its diagnosis. It acknowledges that Indian schools are not building critical thinking or analytical depth, that rote learning continues to dominate classrooms, that formative as

In an age where students are constantly juggling expectations, racing against deadlines, and battling unseen emotional storms, mental well-being often takes a back seat. While classrooms focus on grades and playgrounds shape physical fitness, the silent struggles of young minds frequently go unnoticed. Breaking this long-standing pattern, Nanded Education Society’s Science College, Nanded, has stepped up to the plate by launching an innovative initiative, ‘Aapulki,’ a dedicat

NEP 2020 envisions education as the foundation for building an equitable and innovative society. Although it is a comprehensive vision, its full realization is evaluated by its capacity of overcoming significant implementation challenges, especially in governance and equitable access. According to the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, the primary goal of education in India is to transform the system to an integrated, versatile, multidisciplinary, and aligned to the 21st

India’s education reforms will succeed not by producing trained hands, but by cultivating adaptable minds. One phrase dominates discussions on higher education today: the ‘job-ready graduate.’ It sounds practical, reassuring, and even urgent. Yet it hides a deeper question that is rarely asked. What does ‘job-ready’ really mean at a time when jobs themselves are changing faster than ever? In most professional settings, there are no fixed manuals. Engineers, scientists, and te

A country that enforces rest for pilots still relies on endurance from teachers to keep its education system airborne. AI generated image I was a student at the University of Mumbai in the late 80s, right in the middle of that unforgettable 54-day teachers’ strike of 1987. Technically, the situation should have been disastrous. The government was dragging its feet on implementing revised NEP-linked pay scales, negotiations were going nowhere, and the newspapers were full of o

Prof Dr Anand Patil The Government of Maharashtra’s Academy of Literature and Culture has recently published an ambitious trilogy of Marathi works on cultural theory and criticism — a project entrusted to one of India’s senior comparatists, the former Head and Professor of English at Goa University, Prof Dr Anand Patil. Despite spending two decades in Goa, where much of his experimental work in Marathi and English went largely unnoticed in Maharashtra, his contribution is for

Globalisation taught the world to look at India as a market first and a culture second. Beauty pageant crowns once signalled the discovery of a lucrative consumer base. A similar shift is unfolding in education, where India’s enormous learner population has turned schooling itself into an export opportunity for others and a purchasing decision for us. India is now the world’s most populous country and has the largest cohort of young people, a demographic fact that powerfully

Read & Lead Foundation President Maulana Abdul Qayyum Mirza with daughter Mariyam Mirza. Mumbai/Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: In the new age controlled by smart-gadgets and social media, an academic from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar has sparked a small, head-turning and successful - ‘savings and reading’ revolution among middle-school children. Launched in 2006, by Maulana Abdul Qayyum Mirza, the humble initiative turns 20 this year and witnessed over 60,000 free savings boxes (gu

India’s math crisis will not be solved by rewriting syllabi with Sanskrit gloss, but by rebuilding its classrooms with skilled teachers. I still remember the moment that made me believe I was “bad at mathematics.” I must have been nine or ten. I had raised my hand in class and asked, “If 2 + 2 = 4 and 2 × 2 = 4, why is 3 + 3 = 6 and 3 × 3 = 9?” A simple question, really. One that any good teacher would have seen as a window into a child’s struggle to make sense of abstract co

At seventeen, most people are still figuring out which tracks to follow in life; some, like me, are beginning to wonder if the tracks we have chosen will ever get us anywhere worth going. For the past few weeks, I have been quietly engulfed by a kind of quarter-life crisis, questioning not just my past decisions but the very architecture of the life I hope to lead. Have I lived enough? Have I made choices that matter? Will the ambitions I harbour today translate into the life

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A policy meant to unite the nation’s classrooms has instead left students juggling burdensome tongues and policymakers without a clear...

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...

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

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

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

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