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...
She is the first EMRS teacher who has been honoured with a prestigious National Teacher Award. She also worked for Rajeev Gandhi Navodaya Vidyalaya for 6 years earlier and working with EMRS from 2010 and was among the founding members of the school. “The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with...