A look at the New Education Policy NEP 2020 and the challenges facing our Education System.
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2021Current IssueEducationEducationThe Entrepreneurial Roller Coaster
The Entrepreneurial Roller Coaster: Avanti
EdTechs are grabbing the dollars and the headlines, while some IITians have chosen the less glamorous and more hands-on approach to making good education available to people who most need …
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2021Current IssueEducation
IIT Bombay and Affirmative Action – Inconspicuous but Not Inconsequential
Underlines the quiet but not insignificant contribution IITB has been making towards meeting its responsibility in preparing disadvantaged students.
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2021Current IssueEducation
Learning Design Online: The Challenges and Opportunities
by Sonam Ambeby Sonam AmbeAn exploration of how a subject as sensory as Architecture and Design has adapted to online learning.
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Does education give one wings or make one just another brick in the wall ? A rumination.
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We asked our canny Private Eye to analyse whether scientific reasoning was under siege; he expanded his brief to explore the state of reason and the spirit of enquiry.
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IITB is finally introducing an option for undergraduate students that many alumni may wish that they had in their time. JEE qualifiers who feel straitjacketed can have an escape, Liberal …
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2021Current IssueEducation
Rote Learning and the Destruction of Creativity
by Anurag Mehraby Anurag MehraA mirror to our Education System, warts and all. Mostly warts, but the remedy is not beauty creams and face masks but a healthy diet.
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Takes you on a nostalgic trip through the corridors of the Institute while examining the inclusiveness of the system and the room for creativity in it.
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A not so young parent’s lament of his hopes from the Kendriya Vidyalaya, that will resonate with now not so young alumni.
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A hilarious poem that proposes a new career path for the aspiring youth of India.
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Big changes can only come when one is only willing to take that leap of faith; a first-person account of the Moderna Vaccine trials to illustrate that maxim.
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The life journey of a master storyteller who has taken his love of stories to all forms of art.
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Art is how we express our humanity, in all of its dimensions. Through art, we descend to the depths of our human nature, rise to the heights, and everything in …
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A world of schisms and the choices we may make.
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2021The Tribe of Hope Whisperers
The Toast Doesn’t Always Have to Fall Buttered Side Down!
by Satish Joshiby Satish JoshiThe essential survival tool, therefore, has been pessimism, and do we love it! Even when its “use by date” is long gone.
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Sometimes the inspiration for creative work comes from the most unlikely places; in this case a casual chat with a stranger on a bus heading to Hampi.
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An inspiring account of how sound engineering, economics and strategy, driven by hope enabled a struggling Indian company to survive the international competition and emerge triumphant in the post-liberalization era.
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One of the positive changes that 2020 wrought – an increased consciousness about good health and a willingness to do something about it. The authors’ journey to better health, and …
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About an 18-year old vibrant book club in Pune who continued to meet virtually in 2020 and expanded their reach too!
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A story set in Venetian lagoons that looks deep into the question of what constitutes true inspiration in art.