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Issues around Prejudices and Morality in Children
Tarannum Shaikh, in The New Leam, explores ideas around prejudice and morality among young minds and looks at how it impacts their engagement with the world.
#DataViz: Over Half of Delhi’s Garbage Ends Up in Landfills
In three charts, Anshul Rai Sharma, in IndiaSpend, explains Delhi’s garbage and sewage crisis, which is threatening the health of its 20 million citizens.
Collectively blind to pollution
Harini Nagendra, in Deccan Herald, explains how rubber tyres constitute an invisible link between air and water pollution and may have severe impacts on human health.
How we can make school celebrations inclusive
Children come to school in traditional or festive clothes and celebrate festivals together. Here, we need to question the norms and ideas that must change to suit our times, writes Shefali Tripathi Mehta, in The News Minute.
देशाचा विकासदर खरेच गतिमान आहे का?
India Development Rate : या लेखात आपण राष्ट्रीय उत्पन्न कसे काढतात हे समजून घेऊया.
Harini Nagendra, Seema Mundoli — “Caste shapes access to water in so many ways”
The authors of Shades of Blue discuss climate change, its impact on the most disadvantaged sections of society, and the ongoing water crisis across Indian cities, with Arunima Mazumdar, in Hindustan Times.
Each cup of tea, a step towards self-sufficiency
Founded by Alina Alam, an alumna of Azim Premji University, Mitti Café has provided an inclusive space and sound livelihood for hundreds of people with disabilities, writes Sweekruthi K, in Deccan Herald.
What explains policy change? Understanding the historical political economy of India
Using instances from the Nehruvian planning régime to the economic liberalisation in 1991, Rahul De, in Ideas for India, aims to use political economy concepts to incisively explain major economic policy changes in India.
We must bust myths around the social service sector
False notions of sustainability, scaling up, systemic change and ulterior motives need to be tackled, writes Anurag Behar, in Mint.
Economic Growth, Structural Change, and Women’s Earnings in India
The last two decades have seen a large churn in the Indian female workforce. However, this increase has not led to a systematic reduction in the unexplained earnings gap, write Amit Basole and Rosa Abraham, in India in Transition.
Ejipura flyover project raises concerns over high environmental impact
The study by researchers from Azim Premji University is especially significant in the backdrop of the Bengaluru Climate Action and Resilience Plan (BCAP), which aims to achieve net-zero by 2050, highlights Harshitha Padmavinod, in Citizen Matters.
Small kindnesses
This December 31, when we light candles to usher in the New Year, let us make each spot of light count toward a small kindness for the environment, writes Harini Nagendra, in Deccan Herald.
Why Children of Migrant Farm Workers in Gujarat Remain Out of School
With distance and language barriers as the top reasons, Gautami Kulkarni, in IndiaSpend, sheds light on the ‘access to schooling’ for children of migrant agricultural workers who migrated with their parents to Gujarat.
India’s jobs crisis, the macroeconomic reasons
The employment challenge can no longer be met only through more rapid GDP growth; a separate policy focus is needed on employment, write Amit Basole and Zico Dasgupta, in The Hindu.
Institution Builders in Modern India: 8 Behaviours
Institution building cannot be left to chance. It needs design and work. And every one of us is an architect of the institutions we are fortunate to be part of, writes Sudheesh Venkatesh, in People Matters.
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Insistence on empathy holds the key to a society bonded by trust
Kindness for one another will help us forge a community where each one of us can live in dignity, writes Anurag Behar, in Mint.
Vertical Wonders: The Architecture of Azim Premji University
Abir Pothi highlights the holistic built environment of Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, which reinforces educational excellence reflected through its architecture.
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The need to make space for neurodiversity
‘Person with disability’ is a term that may be an improvement upon ‘disabled’, but is still patronising, writes Shefali Tripathi Mehta in The News Minute.
Magic happens when leaders wear their vulnerability on their sleeve
When leaders share their challenges, failures, and uncertainties, their team members feel confident to reciprocate with their feedback, ideas and hopes, which creates joyful teams, writes Sudheesh Venkatesh, in YourStory.
Indian girls are challenging the rest of the world to keep pace
They want education, jobs and also fun. It’s crucial that we enable and not stifle their aspirations, writes Anurag Behar, in Mint.
The illusion of India’s improving public healthcare
Mampi Bose, in India Development Review, explores the National Health Accounts (NHA), 2019 – 20, and explains how it has painted a rosy picture of healthcare in India. Will NHA, 2020 – 21, be any different?
Lack of support holds back Civil Service aspirants from Tribal Maharashtra
A large number of youth migrate to Pune from rural areas of Maharashtra with dreams. Rushikesh Kasabe, in Round Table India, observes the struggles of the adivasi youth.
ಶಿಕ್ಷಣದ ಅನುಸಂಧಾನ ಮತ್ತು ಶಾಲೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿನ ಪಠ್ಯವಿಷಯಗಳು
ಮಕ್ಕಳು 11ನೇ ತರಗತಿಗೆ ತಲುಪುವ ತನಕ ನಾವು ವಿಷಯಗಳಿಗೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿನ ಮಹತ್ವ ನೀಡುವುದಿಲ್ಲ ಮತ್ತು ಮುಂದೆ ಕಲಿಯಬೇಕಾದ ವಿಷಯವನ್ನು ಆಯ್ಕೆ ಮಾಡುವ ಅನಿವಾರ್ಯತೆಯು ಈ ಹಂತದಲ್ಲಿ ಉಂಟಾಗುತ್ತದೆ.
The many states of Karnataka
There is not one Karnataka, but many contained within the one we know. And that is what we should be celebrating as this Rajotasava month comes to an end, write Juhi Tyagi and Dileep Athresh.
We need an education system that isn’t held hostage by exams
We should change and improve examinations to enable real learning and make genuine assessments of it. The education-distorting marks chase must be done away with, writes Anurag Behar, in Mint.
‘Bikes do not Discriminate, Society does’: The Journeys of Women Bikers in India
Shraddha Jain, in Feminism in India (FII), shares diverse voices of female bike riders from Bengaluru and Khargone district of Madhya Pradesh, on bike riding in India.
Community participation revives Kakoijana reserve forest in Assam from near extinction
Namrata Sharma, in Northeast Now, highlights how the forest, spanning 17.24 km near Abhayapuri town in Assam’s Bongaigaon district, facing near extinction during the 1980s and 1990s, was restored.
Integrating vocation education in school education would serve India well
The National Curriculum Framework (NCF) 2023 takes into account the economic well-being of students well into account, as highlighted by Anurag Behar, in Mint.
Women in the Wild: Stories of India’s Most Brilliant Women Wildlife Biologists
The book demands to be read — especially by the youth today who are increasingly disconnected from the natural world amidst an unfolding ecological crisis, writes Seema Mundoli, in The Hindu BusinessLine, in her review of the book.