Education

How Frontier Technologies Are Solving India’s Biggest Challenges — Healthcare, Water, Farming & Education

How Frontier Technologies Are Solving India’s Biggest Challenges — Healthcare, Water, Farming & Education

A tidal wave of new-age, cutting-edge innovations across India is exemplifying that no development challenge is too big to solve.  Frontier technologies — emerging, innovative interventions with the potential to create transformative socio-economic changes — are proving just that: whether it’s by providing health access to the remotest corners of India, saving billions of litres

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How Kozhikode’s 4-Month Internship Is Helping Students Experience Governance

How Kozhikode’s 4-Month Internship Is Helping Students Experience Governance

What if you could lead your city for a day?   During her school years, this was among Harsha Haridas’ favourite essay topics. So, when, as a 23-year-old, she spotted an opportunity that allowed her to do precisely this, she seized it. An initiative by the Kozhikode district administration, the District Collector’s Internship Programme (DCIP) is

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Dehradun’s Suraah Follows an Alternative Schooling Model, Helping Tribal Kids Learn Better

Dehradun’s Suraah Follows an Alternative Schooling Model, Helping Tribal Kids Learn Better

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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How Vishal Talreja’s Dream a Dream Is Empowering 2.2 Million Children With Life Skills

How Vishal Talreja’s Dream a Dream Is Empowering 2.2 Million Children With Life Skills

When Vishal Talreja visited Finland as a young graduate, he was struck by the dignity and confidence people carried, no matter their circumstances. Returning to India, he dreamed of building an education system that could nurture the same in children here. What began as a weekend effort with a few friends in Bengaluru is today

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Dr Kalpana Sankar Empowers 2.2 Million Women Through ‘Hand in Hand India’

Dr Kalpana Sankar Empowers 2.2 Million Women Through ‘Hand in Hand India’

In India’s villages, where development often bypasses the most vulnerable, Dr Kalpana Sankar has brought dignity, economic independence, and hope to millions of women.  A scientist by training and a changemaker by conviction, she left a government job to co-found ‘Hand in Hand India’, applying scientific rigour and grassroots organising to build a holistic rural

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