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Reform Without Reach
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Maharashtra’s new policy promises to streamline its educational welfare institutions but leaves deeper structural flaws untouched.
For years, Maharashtra’s alphabet soup of educational welfare institutions - SARTHI, BARTI, Mahajyoti, TRTI...
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Parents, It’s Time to Wise Up
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For two decades, India’s obsession with engineering and medicine has created not merely competition, but a generation burdened by fear, exhaustion, and borrowed dreams.
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Roughly two decades...
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New Names, Old Realities
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Renaming hostels may soothe stigma, but it does little to fix the conditions that define students’ lives
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Pune: Recently, the Social Justice and Special Assistance Department decided...
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Scholarships that go nowhere
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Maharashtra’s bureaucratic drift is turning a flagship foreign-study scheme into a machine for wasting talent.
For a government that talks grandly of global exposure and human capital, the foreign merit...
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Young in Number, Old in Power
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Maharashtra’s local elections reveal how a youthful electorate is being crowded out by money, lineage and virtual politics.
After a gap of nearly eight years, the bugle has finally sounded...
Marathwada's Unfulfilled Promise of Progress
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On the occasion of Marathwada Liberation Day, the region’s struggle for progress remains an unfinished chapter of India’s development story.
Each year on September 17, Maharashtra marks the Marathwada Mukti...
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Hunger Games
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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 as the ‘Oxford of the East,’...
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A Distant Dream
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A flagship foreign scholarship for Maratha students is tangled in red tape, outdated rules, and bureaucratic apathy.
When it was launched with much fanfare two years ago, the Maharaja Sayajirao...
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A Waiver in Name Only
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Maharashtra’s ambitious 100 percent tuition fee waiver for girls risks becoming another well-meaning policy undone by poor implementation.
On July 8, 2024, the Maharashtra state government issued a circular that...
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The Missing Youth in Politics
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In the run-up to Maharashtra’s elections, political parties are keen to highlight the role of young people. Yet behind the slogans and speeches, a crucial question remains: Where are the...
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Maharashtra’s Scholarship Quagmire
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In Maharashtra, a range of scholarships exists to support students from marginalized communities, primarily scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, other backward classes and economically weaker sections. Both the central and state...
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