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Printed Ideologies: Protecting our Students from Politicized Textbooks The Bastion

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...

Educating India’s Daughter: Has the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Yojana Worked?

  Structural and socio-cultural limitations entrenched in modern India have prevented innumerable young girls from attending school across the country. Lack of access to education...

Monitoring the Right to Education: Who Does What?

On 1st April 2010, The Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE) was passed by the UPA government, making primary education a fundamental...

Up Close: The Under-Recognised Role of Maharashtra’s Education Department Officers

This is the first in a three-part series in collaboration with Leadership For Equity (LFE) highlighting the challenges and needs, administrative and technological, of...

Learning By Doing: How Project Based Learning Can Transform Our Education System

A new B-school graduate finds himself on his first day at work as an analyst in an investment bank. He is facing a spreadsheet...

Qatar’s Rocky Road to 2022

2017 was a turbulent year for the State of Qatar. Qatar’s involvement with regional actors such as Hamas and Iran were seen as acts...

India At COP26: “The World’s Best Last Chance to Get Runaway Climate Change Under...

Shikha Bhasin and Bhasker Tripathi explain the past, present, and future of India’s climate negotiations at the Conference of the Parties.

Is the Sports Industry India’s Next Big Thing?

Researched and written by Sreeradh Radhakrishnan. India put on its best ever show since 1985 at the recently concluded 22nd edition of the Asian Athletics...

The Ways an Education Nonprofit Can Fundraise in Post-Pandemic India

Imagine this. You established your organisation in 2016 to contribute to the field of education. You are almost ready to launch a fellowship program...
Money for Nothing: The Disconcerting Future of the Humanities in India The Bastion

Money for Nothing: The Disconcerting Future of the Humanities in India

Co-authored by Ishani Pant and Kirti Dass The study of the humanities and social sciences is being threatened by a lack of funds for facilitating...