Empowering Parents To Demand Better Of Their Child’s Education
Without improving parental engagement, Indian education will lack accountability and deliver poor education under the facade of quality and equity.
The Bastion Dialogues: Parth Shah
Parth J. Shah (PS), Founder and Chairman of the Centre for Civil Society and the Director of the Indian School of Public Policy (ISPP),...
Behind the Scenes: The Factors that Influenced Our New National Education Policy
Dear Reader,
If there’s anything six years of NDA rule has taught us, it’s that most things in general, whether planned or unplanned, come unannounced....
The Stuff That Champions Are Made Of
Written by Dhruv Raman
What does it take to win an extraordinary game? An extraordinary performance, right? Think back to the biggest games you have...
Printed Ideologies: Protecting our Students from Politicized Textbooks
Co-authored by Evita Rodrigues and Gopika Kumaran
For decades, textbooks have occupied a pivotal role within India’s education system as a resource utilized by teachers...
The Shore Scene: Locked Down In a Fishing Town
In early March 2020, I traveled to Malvan, where, for the past three years, I’ve been studying the fisheries in the region. Malvan is...
Why the Privatisation of Schooling Hasn’t Improved the Quality of Indian Education
Over the past few decades, parents have overwhelmingly shifted their children from government-run schools to private schools. The 4 lakh+ private schools in India...
Promise in 2014 vs Practice in 2017: Assessing the BJP’s Education Policies
Despite efforts by previous governments, India’s education system's quality struggles with problems of accessibility, transparency, research and innovation. When the Bharatiya Janata Party campaigned...
The Ball is in Our Court: Developing India’s Youth Through Sport
Written by Tanvi Apte
“It (Sport) has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It is more powerful than government...
Wilderness Conservation and a Flawed Imagination of Nature
Many of us have been sharing videos and photographs of “nature coming back” in the wake of the COVID-19 induced lockdown of normal human...
