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School children shouldn’t have to pay the price for untenable orthodoxies about learning
While continuous evaluation was supposed to keep learning on track, a whole generation of students had to bear the cost, writes Anurag Behar in Mint.
Azim Premji University to host lecture on India’s changing middle classes
‘A Tale of Two Middle Classes,’ by Sonalde Desai on 24 Aug 2026 at 6:30 PM at the Bangalore International Centre (BIC), will explore how India’s economic transformation has reshaped everyday life in the 21st century.
Location Bangalore International Centre (BIC)
Kannada Children’s Literature Fellowship Announced: Nine Works Selected for Publication
The jury selected works for publication across a wide range of genres, from poetry to short stories.
Campus Bengaluru
Same Experiments, New Story
Molecular biology workshops are nothing new to Beena DB and Krishna Deepak, but this time they chose to follow a completely different approach.
What makes inheriting Partition different from remembering it
When history is passed down in fragments, through family stories, silences, memories of loss and belonging, we do not inherit the whole of the past. We inherit particular versions of it, writes Malini Bhattacharjee in ThePrint.
‘You miss the real motivations by seeing RSS only through politics’: Author Malini Bhattacharjee
In her new book Swayamsevak, Malini Bhattacharjee shifts the lens from top leadership to the ordinary cadres who sustain the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) at the grassroots, as highlighted in Business Today.
Children must not be deprived of real learning in the process of trying to make education fun
Even a well-meaning push for less burdensome education would fail if students are not encouraged to make an effort, as illustrated by Anurag Behar in Mint.
Refocusing mid-day meals: What children really need | Number Theory
Introducing eggs in the meal is an effective way of improving nutritional quality and appeal of the scheme, writes Dipa Sinha in Hindustan Times.
Is there a Mathematics with Indian characteristics?
The arrival of computation as a meta-discipline raises the spectre of infusing Mathematics again with Indian characteristics, writes Shailaja Sharma in Exclusive News.
Present, but not included
Dhriti Kriplani and Sandhya Basu, in Democratic Jagat, highlight their study conducted across five inclusive schools in Bengaluru, which helps understand the tension between schools’ pedagogical capacity and policy enforcement.
Why the quality of cognitive patience is important
The ability to wait and watch, to observe patterns as they unfold and to stay the course are crucial aspects of resilient life, writes Aruna Sankaranarayanan in The Hindu.