Rewriting Indian History Recently, there has been a lot of debate on rewriting Indian history as there are multiple claims that the history in our school textbooks is distorted. Historians, experts, teachers, parents and many of us are keenly debating on the issue of what is our real history and…

I was recently approached for a conversation by an NGO founder on LinkedIn. His team was building a teacher training course for providing training to teachers in the govt schools of UP. They directly started with how we can “train teachers” effectively. Jumping into designing a program using “design thinking”. …

Interviewer: You have such diverse education and work experience, how do you think these other skills are relevant? Me: Let me share with you story of one of my friend’s wedding One of my close friends was getting married. I joined his wedding procession (baraat). The wedding destination was far…

The story is of my engineering days at NIT Jalandhar. Since it was an NIT, the students in this story lie in the top 5% of the 1 million students who took the national level entrance exam. These students got education from probably some of the best teachers, schools, edtech…

I was one of the official reviewers for a global edtech competition. I reviewed 200+ proposals of edtech companies/start ups from literally every corner of the globe. And the one parameter on which most of these companies were marked consistently poor was “equity”. In the equity section, most of the…

Couple of weeks back, I had conducted a poll on LinkedIn where I asked people whether they would send their child to an English Medium School or a Vernacular Medium School (Assumption: English is not the vernacular/mother tongue language) (Another: Quality of both the schools is great) In the poll…

I was talking to a curriculum designer. This guy went overboard in explaining how his publisher’s books are extra-ordinary; that they don’t just design the content but also lead the content for the teacher. They make sure they tell the teachers everything: what to teach, how to teach, which activities…

I was invited to a school’s annual function sometime back. I knew the principal fairly well, so it was no formal guest invite, just a casual invite to experience the creativity of the students. It was a delightful day indeed. Students’ performed dramas, singing, dancing, plays, and what not. Teachers…

10 things I see in our children even after getting “education”: 1. More money / better job 2. Fast paced life / a desperateness to grow 3. More unhealthy competition 4. More want / consumption (luxury!) 5. More cynicism 6. Low survival skills (I have written a paper on this) 7. Low…