Modern AI-powered writing assistants like Grammarly, Quillbot, and ChatGPT promise to fix your grammar instantly and make your English writing better. But do these tools actually help students learn English, or are they just digital crutches? Let’s take a sober look at both sides of the story. What AI Writing Assistants Do Well 1. Catching […]
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Welcome to the ulta pulta (upside down) school, where mountains form classroom walls and open skies form the roof. Here, no question is too ‘stupid’ and children learn by reasoning, not by rote. At the ulta pultaschool, wonder leads the way, and mistakes are celebrated. Education feels less like a routine, and more like an
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In 2022, Yogesh Raut, a cotton and soybean farmer from Maharashtra, found himself at a crossroads. Like many cultivators in his region, he relied on manual spraying methods that consumed both time and resources. Hiring labourers to spray his 30-acre farmland typically cost him around Rs 1,200 per acre, while also demanding long hours of
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