Harini Nagendra and Seema Mundoli speak to Divya J Shekhar, Forbes India, about our complicated collective history with water, community warriors who are showing the way, whether we need to put a price on water, and how we can start rebuilding our relationship with it.

As the Gauri-Ganesha festival season draws to a close, Harini Nagendra highlights how our orientation — as individuals, communities, and indeed as a society — toward nature, water, and worship has changed.

Shilpi Banerjee and Ronita Sharma, in Teacher, discuss key principles in designing and using authentic assessments. 

Mike Brearley’s Turning Over the Pebbles is the story of 81 years where cricket has played a wonderful part and yet is only a part, writes S Giridhar, in the Hindu BusinessLine.

What is the scope of social protection programmes? Are they transformative? While Gruha Lakshmi should be acknowledged for its scope, there are some lessons as well, writes Anshul Rai Sharma in Citizen Matters.

ಹಿಂದೂಸ್ತಾನ್ ಟೈಮ್ಸ್ ಕನ್ನಡದ ಆನ್ ಲೈನ್ ಆವೃತ್ತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ, ​‘ಒಬ್ಬ ಉತ್ತಮ ನಾಯಕನಾಗಲು ಏನು ಬೇಕು’ ಎನ್ನುವ ಕುತೂಹಲ ಭರಿತ ವಿಚಾರದ ಕುರಿತು ಅಭಿಪ್ರಾಯ ಮಂಡಿಸುವ ಲೇಖನವನ್ನು ಸುಧೀಶ್ ವೆಂಕಟೇಶ್ ಬರೆದಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

Anurag Behar, in Mint, explores Learning Standards (LS) and how the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) for School Education is built around these, knitting all its elements together to form the whole.

Climate change is not just global warming. It is a new era of extremes. The floods that Kerala witnessed in 2021, and which Greece faced last week, are not aberrations, but a sign of things to come, writes Harini Nagendra, in Deccan Herald.

The several initiatives introduced by the Indian government for women’s safety have not received adequate importance in terms of budgetary allocations and administrative implementation, writes Mampi Bose, in The Wire.

K Sridhar, in The Wire, celebrates the colossal body of work that Asha Bhosle — the most recorded musician ever — has created over the years, as she turns 90 and crosses another milestone in her life.

In its latest report – which remained finalised but out of the public domain for almost six months – there are massive, unexplainable shifts in values and a lack of nuance in presenting data, writes Himanshu Upadhyaya, in The Wire.