India need not replicate international models. It can draw upon its own dramatic heritage through classroom adaptations of Mudrarakshasa to explore governance and diplomacy, or Abhigyanshakuntalam to introduce students to classical literature and aesthetics. Imagine asking a fish to climb a tree and then judging its intelligence by how well it succeeds. The analogy,...

India is home to over One Million Public Schools and more than 130 million students who attend these schools. While the National Curriculum Framework for School Education (NCF-SE) 2023 and New Education Policy (NEP) 2020 call for entrepreneurship and innovation,structured entrepreneurship activities remain largely absent in most public schools.School students hold immense potential as...

By Vemana Vijaya Naga Durganjali The year 2025 is significant for India as it celebrates 78 years of independence, marking an important milestone for our education system.With a staggering 248 million children enrolled in schools, we have the largest school-going population in the world. But along with this achievement comes a profound responsibility: the...

By Prangya Jyoti Samal The introduction of the New Education Policy of 2020 was revolutionary in the field of pedagogy itself. From early childhood to higher education, there were subsequent changes in the structure along with the integration of new concepts, which are crucial for a child’s holistic development. One such addition was the...

By Urwashi Pandey Many of us who live in urban areas believe the concept of child marriage has long been left behind in our country. We grew up believing this concept is now only confined to history books or remote villages, but this assumption is far from the truth. Even today, in many parts...

By Nimmi Verma In Vedic age, education was not reserved exclusively for men but women like Gargi, Maitreyi, Lopamudra established themselves as great debaters of philosophy, as mentioned in Rig Veda. Later the wheels of time churned and changed the spectrum of women’s life and a phrase whispered the Indian households, “Ladki ho,itna padh...

By Mehak Aulakh Purnima Huika, 16, from the Dongria Kondh tribe … “the mountain is God’s abode.” There was no school near home, so she enrolled in an Ashram. Her parents resisted at first, until they were promised food rations. “Slowly,” she said, “I started to like that environment.” Eventually she and thirteen others...

By Sakshi Upadhyay India is home to one of the largest youth populations in the world, often celebrated as its “demographic dividend”, yet a paradox exists – India produces lakhs of engineers, MBA’s and graduates annually still the unemployment rates stand at 6.77%. A crucial question is brought up by the growing gap between...