Faculty Perspectives
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Mentoring in Public Health: Aspiration, Inspiration and Motivation
Connecting personal goals with collective wellbeing.
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Teacher’s Day: Celebrating Teaching, Not Teachers
Mayur Trivedi asks us to empower students to ask questions
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Is there a Place for ‘Best Practices’ in the Field of Development?
Adithya Pradyumna unpacks the complexity of the phrase in a world of rapidly growing developmental challenges
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Symphony of voices | Role of education in the postcolonial context
For India’s Independence Day in 2025, some of our colleagues at Azim Premji University shared their thoughts on the theme, “Role of education in the… -
“हम भारत के लोग”: हम से ‘हम’ तक
आशुतोष व्यास स्वतंत्रता और बंधुत्व पर विचार प्रस्तुत कर रहे हैं।
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We the people of India: from ‘we’ to ‘We’
Ashutosh Vyas reflects on freedom and fraternity
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Spatial Conceptualisations of Belonging
Sindhu Mathai reflects on understanding ‘belonging’ through spatial formations, after travel by train in Finland
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The Future of the Olympiads is Diverse
Mohan R and Ajaykumar K reflect on the evolution of the mathematical olympiads, and caution the community from forgetting its original goals.
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To the Moon and Beyond
Proteep Mallik wonders about the many aspects of our celestial neighbour on International Moon Day
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Are many Indians Entrepreneurs, because they have to be?
Gopi Sankar G explores forms of entrepreneurship in India
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Understanding and Countering Hate: Politics, Technologies and Culture
Eveleen K. Sidana highlights how hate distorts, displaces, and erodes diversity, normalised further by digital technologies.
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Looms, schools and Special Economic Zones: Childhood, Education and Labour in Kanchipuram
Miriam Thangaraj offers an ethnographic perspective on child labour ‘eradication’ efforts.
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Chronicles of Child Labour: Building New Narratives
Anuradha Nagaraj recounts her conversation with a survivor of child trafficking, who had the rare agency and ability to revisit her past in a matter-of-fact way
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Lessons from L B Road, Chennai
R Ramanujam shares some of his experiences from taking classes for child workers.
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Revisiting the Child Labour Debate on ‘World Day Against Child Labour’
Vijitha Rajan on the need to move the child-labour debate from scholarship to policy and practice.
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My Rabindranath: A reminiscence
Ashok Sircar’s personal journey with Tagore
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আমার রবীন্দ্রনাথ
অশোক সরকারের জীবনের চলার পথে রবীন্দ্রনাথকে পাওয়ার কাহিনী
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Tagore, education and nationalism: seeking the unfragmented world
Amman Madan on how Tagore saw India’s contribution to the moral development of humanity
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Patrilocality as a Social Fact and a Sociological Thought Experiment
Vijitha Rajan emphasises the need to think critically about the social construct of patrilocality within our society.
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Indo-Finnish Research Seminar on Education — Charting Collaborative Pathways in ECCE
Ira Joshi summarises various aspects of studies presented in the seminar.
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Deliberative Democracy and the Need to Rethink the Education of a Free India
Amman Madan bears a torch for a democracy in which freedom, citizen participation and respectful dialogue matter more than just numbers and angry rhetoric.
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The Allure of Self-Diagnosis of Attention Disorders
Bhuvaneswari B, drawing from her extensive experience as both a professional clinician and a teacher, emphasises the critical importance of obtaining a proper diagnosis.
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Graduating in a Subject vs Teaching a Subject
From being a theoretical linguist to an applied educational linguist, Agniva Pal shares his story.
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Shouldering our Fellow Beings’ Presence: Human-Primate Coexistence in India
Based on a recent field visit, Shaurabh Anand reflects on the role of ‘agency’ in shaping human-wildlife interactions in different contexts in India.
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Interrogating Meritocracy
Aashti Salman says that the discourse of merit “smooths over structural inequalities, keeping everyone on an ostensibly equal playing field”.
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The First of May | Louis Paul Boon
On International Workers’ Day, A Giridhar Rao shares a translation of ‘The First of May’, prose poetry by Louis Paul Boon.
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Children’s Literature: Broadening Perspectives, Encouraging Initiatives
Sonika Parashar highlights the need for initiatives like KathaVana that support making children’s literature an integral part of every child’s life.
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On getting back our sense of kinship and intimacy with the environment
On Earth Day (April 22), Saswati Paik highlights the need to strike a balance between development and moving towards a sustainable environment.
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Redoing Gender and Self
Vishnu Prakash K reflects on his journey towards understanding education and change.
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Documentation of Traditional Ecological Knowledge by Adivasi Children
Aswathy Arun, Harini Nagendra and Seema Mundoli shed light on the activity-based learning (ABL) worksheets created for Adivasi children of Bastar, to enhance their understanding of the surroundings and nurture pride in their rich cultural heritage.