We asked students in Bihar and Delhi about their access to eight different activities including painting, athletics, singing, theatre, chess, coding and mental mathematics.
Tag: school education
How Online Education Exposed West Bengal’s Fault-Ridden Education System
While several institutional failures had existed for years, they were made starkly clear with the advent of online learning due to the pandemic.
Countering Bigotry in the Indian Classroom
Young people (teenagers, especially) are open to reason and there is a very good chance they will listen to facts if we will but dialogue with them calmly, objectively, …
Bhagavad Gita in Schools: Rote Learning of Illiberal Theological Text Will Trump Rational Inquiry
The book is full of obscurantist themes and ideas which require critical engagement of the kind school teachers will not be willing or able to provide.
Why ‘Free’ Is Not Good for Government Schools
Our poorest students are not guinea pigs for untested educational offerings, passionate but unskilled volunteers, or be at the mercy of corporations who want to imprint their brands on …
Notes from Jaipur on How School Closures Impacted Children from Marginalised Communities
A survey carried out in Jaipur's Kathputli Nagar Basti and Hathroi areas has revealed that several children completely forgot what they had learnt before the lockdown was imposed due …
Logical Fallacy
A poem which questions our understanding of inclusivity, and how certain establishments continue to benefit from human suffering.
‘Project Arambha’: How Two Bengaluru Teens Raised Rs 15 Lakh to Keep 44 Girls in College
In collaboration with 1M1B – a UN-accredited non-profit organisation – two teenagers from Bengaluru founded a social initiative that aims at educating girls and helps them dream big.