Vikas Kumar, in Frontline, shares how the humble postal system helped build trust in the decennial population counts — a lesson for today’s digital age and its anxieties.

Growing up in a slum didn’t deter Triveni Dhamdhare from pursuing studies in a prestigious institution overseas, writes Sudhir Suryawanshi in The New Indian Express.

To make the knowledge system useful, we should stop giving it a free pass, question its claims and approach its prescriptions with humility. In social sciences, many of these are perspectives, not universal truths, writes Anurag Behar, in Mint.

India must counter its age-old narrative of population control by investing in disaggregated data to acknowledge disparities across caste, class, and gender, writes Mayur Trivedi, in SustainabilityNext.

A total of 80 researchers from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), with a significant 56 hailing from AIIMS New Delhi, earned a place in the prestigious top 2% global scientist list. Harini Nagendra, Azim Premji University, features in the list.

The conversation on caste census must be anchored in a firmer normative ground of crafting a decent nation through substantive democracy, writes Khalid Anis Ansari in The New Indian Express.

“You work to create a positive and lasting social change and you derive satisfaction from the difference you make in the lives of the most disadvantaged people in the country,” Sudheesh Venkatesh said. 

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Evidence suggests that dowry deaths are misreported as accidental deaths, thereby underestimating the number of women who die following dowry harassment, writes Kawinkumar B in IndiaSpend.

It compromises current strength in core Mathematics, fails to root itself in Indian heritage, writes R Ramanujam in The Indian Express.

This year’s Millennium Fellows were selected from over 60,000 applicants from over 7,500 campuses across 160 countries. 23 students from Azim Premji University have qualified for the same.

At the heart of education is the teacher and her relationship with her students and technology cannot replace that, writes Anurag Behar in Mint.

A team of 11 experts, including Amit Basole and Arjun Jayadev from Azim Premji University, has designed the questionnaire for the survey. It is scheduled to start from 22 Sept 2025.

Intrusive surveillance will hurt an endeavour that thrives on professional ethics and human bonds, writes Anurag Behar in Mint.

True development does not just build roads, but relationships — between people, land, and the spaces in between. It listens to the land, to the people, to memory, writes Arvind Lakshmisha in Sikkim Express.

Interested authors should submit a proposal with one writing sample along with other details by 30 Nov 2025.

The shelters for the urban homeless in Bengaluru city are poorly maintained and often see low occupancy. This lack of use is cited by the state as evidence for low demand, writes Michelle Abraham in The News Minute.

Being aware of our inherent worth helps us recognise that every person, though unique, is valuable, writes Aruna Sankaranarayanan in The Hindu.

Azim Premji University’s Executive MBA (Development Management) equips professionals with the tools to lead in India’s social sector | Krystelle Dsouza, The Better India

The inclusion of RSS in the national narrative reminds us that national narratives are not static. The idea of India, after all, is not a single story but many competing stories, writes Malini Bhattacharjee in Deccan Herald.

As we grapple with ethics in the AI age, science education can offer us liberation and emancipation, says educationist Vetti Giri, in a conversation with Nandita Jayaraj, in The​Life​of​Science​.com

Climate change has led to higher demand for green jobs across many industries. Deutsche Welle (DW) meets young Indians who chose to work for a greener future.

Our electoral database is broken and unless addressed, it risks hollowing out the credibility of the world’s largest democracy, writes Saurabh Raj in The Leaflet.

To Link or Not to Link: How Aadhaar Impacts the Delivery of Welfare by Anjor Bhaskar, Arpita Sarkar and Preeti Singh has won Economic & Political Weekly’s Best Paper Award for 2024 in the Young Scholar category.

India’s export-led growth fuels a divide: high-productivity services with few jobs vs stagnant manufacturing and wage gaps. A reboot is needed, writes Srinivas Raghavendra in Frontline. 

About 56 percent of the trees in 10 cities belong to similar species, with Bengaluru having the most number of exotic species compared to relatively younger cities like Jaipur, according to an analysis of studies by researchers from Azim Premji University.

Big changes happen through actions by people ready to take responsibility and act in small but consistent ways, writes Anurag Behar in Mint. He quotes the example of a head teacher of a school that has classrooms designated by subject.

The share of bus expenditure out of total conveyance expenditure is 20.6 percent in rural India, as highlighted by Cledwyn Fernandes and Mohd Tahoor in The Hindu.