The 21st Century Needs A New Story
The history of civilisation is the history of great stories. Great stories have been told to humans for hundreds of years. For example, the...
How Well Can E-Learning Match Up To A Traditional Classroom?
Imagine learning a course from top teachers a continent away, from the comfort of sitting at your home.Today, the Internet has brought about a...
Citizen Science: Data of the People, by the People, for the People
Last week, something interesting was introduced in the state of Sikkim. A ‘Sunny Weather Lab’ to record information like wind speed, temperature, and rainfall...
What Ed-Tech Looks Like in Rural Maharashtra’s Schools
In a small school in Nashik, Maharashtra, most of the students are drawn towards their coming annual day practice, running around for speakers and...
Clicking, Waiting, Praying: The making of the techno-scientific professional priest
This article is the second in a series by Krishna Akhil on the efforts of companies to enable Hindu devotees to have access to...
Clicking, Waiting, Praying: The Mantras of Hindu Tech Startups
Written by Krishna Akhil
“Software is eating the world” is the tagline of the prominent Silicon Valley investment firm Andreesen Horowitz. Trite and techno-deterministic as...
Is Your Data Use Harming the Environment?
Written by Vaishnavi Rathore
After booking my train ticket online, I received a confirmation in my email inbox. The ticket ended with “Please don’t print...
A Reprehensible Republic: Republic TV’s Hollow Coverage of the Abrogation of Article 370
In any healthy democracy, the mainstream media is entrusted with the role of a watchdog, expected to always hold power to account. Unfortunately, much...
DIKSHA: The Long-Awaited Antidote to India’s Education Crisis?
Written by Aparna Ramanujam
It’s a blistering afternoon in Tamil Nadu, in July 2019. Inside a school in central Chennai, students run amok-the heat is...
Mediating the Media: Making India’s Children Media Literate
Authored by Ipsita Mishra
The Internet is the main source of information today, with usage climbing across urban and rural areas. Where we get our...
