Fiona Vaz
For the children in rural Orissa, Anil Pradhan is a messiah. By founding innovative schools, setting up maker labs and training teachers in the villages of Orissa, Pradhan has made learning a reality, giving hope and impetus to the dreams of many boys and girls.

Prakash Iyer
Do we have revolutions in education? Can we point at a particular time in history to show an education revolution? Unlike the more visible political revolutions, revolutions in education are subtle and continuous. Every act of responding to a concern emanating from the existing system, every question raised against a particular practice, every time we reflect and learn from each other is a step towards a revolution.

Pradita Nambiar
One of the aims of education, lately, has been to raise sensitive, aware and critically thinking individuals. It finds prominence in the latest policy on education, NEP 2020 as well. But critical thinking does not come from mere discussions; these discussions should be about specific problems and finding solutions to those problems. Every day, the teacher comes across several opportunities to initiate such discussions and draw out imaginative responses from her students.

Arundhati Misra and Abhik Bhattacherji
Reforms needn’t always come from an outside authority, if we put our minds to it, even individuals can transform an existing system. Teach for India, as its founder Shaheen Mistri envisioned, has become a people-led movement that is transforming India’s schools from the grassroots.

Ardra Balachandran
Why is it that some countries’ education systems are considered better than the others? How did Finland and Canada come to have progressive education systems? What did Singapore or Poland do right to become education hubs of the world? While education in every country is influenced by its culture and community, we certainly can learn and adapt from systems better than our own.

Anjali Noronha
The education of its citizens is one of the primary concerns of every nation, which is why the formulation of education policies are often long drawn, critical exercises. Since independence, India has had three National Education Policies, each reflecting the hopes and vision of the country at the time. We present a brief history and analysis of some of the highlights in each policy.

Ishika Ramakrishna and Krithi K. Karanth
EVS is a subject that finds its place on the time table of every school. However, it is also a subject that does not get the importance it deserves. If EVS is taught unimaginatively and out of context, how do we expect children to be sensitive to the needs of nature and help conserve it?