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No Internet Needed: How a Bihar Village School Is Bringing Digital Lessons to...
This story is part of “How Tech Changed It” — The Better India’s series that looks at how technology has transformed the sectors, systems and everyday experiences around us. From how we travel and...
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After 6 Failed UPSC Attempts, She Restarted at 30 to Help 900 Rural Kids...
“I did not like going to school. The teachers taught us, but sometimes they also scolded and hit us. I never really felt interested in learning,” recalls nine-year-old Jamna Prasad. Growing up in...
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How a 27-Year Veteran Teacher Stopped Lecturing & Helped 80 Students Get...
A wire, a tool and a room full of trainees are familiar sights for Kester Dason. But ask him what happens when the same students have to sit through a theory lesson, and the picture changes. After...
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No Fees, Walls, Syllabus: Every Sunday, 30 Kids in Kashmir Learn From the...
In Pampore, Kashmir’s saffron-growing belt, Sundays look a little different for a group of children. Instead of spending the day indoors, they gather in an open-air learning space where books, colours,...
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As IIT Bombay Grieves, 5 Indian Campuses Offer a Different Model for Student...
For many students, college is the first time they live away from home, manage demanding academics, navigate friendships and relationships, and make decisions about their future, often all at once. But...
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Teachers Took Nail Cutters, Not Textbooks, to This Tribal Hamlet in Tamil...
On a Saturday afternoon in Kodaikanal's Kombai-Perungadu tribal settlement, a 5-year-old girl appears on a video call, her hair neatly plaited, her blue frock crisp. She offers a shy smile. "Hi! Yen...
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From Leaking Roofs to Bright Learning Walls: How a Crumbling Govt School...
“Earlier, when it rained, water used to fall from the roof. Now there is no such tension, and we can concentrate on our studies.” For years, rainy days at school meant something very different for...
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Homesick Silicon Valley Techies Rebuilt a Flood-Wrecked Karnataka School —...
This Silicon Valley Engineer Believed Every Child Deserves a Dignified Classroom — So His Initiative Rebuilt 150+ Rural Schools in India In 2003, a small group of Indian engineers in Silicon Valley did...
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From ‘Madam Collector’ to ‘Collector Didi’, How Gargi Jain Is Keeping Tribal...
Every district collector's office has a chair reserved for visitors, but in Gujarat's Chhota Udepur, collector Gargi Jain chose a different one: a plastic chair inside a government school classroom,...
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At This Nagaland School, Kids Grow Vegetables That Go Straight to Their Lunch...
At K Khel Government Middle School in Viswema, Nagaland, lunch starts in the school garden. Its 60-odd students grow vegetables that eventually make their way from the soil to their own plates. The...
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A Tamil Nadu Teacher Turned His Govt School’s Classrooms Into Bright Train...
After months of attending classes online during the COVID pandemic, Manimekalai remembers finally walking back into Pethanayakanur Government High School in Coimbatore district. The school she returned...
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What the Law Promises a Government School Student in India
Every school day, millions of children across India walk, cycle or catch a bus to a government school. They sit in class, eat a hot meal, play, and head home again. Behind that ordinary routine sits...
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Assam Couple Gives Away Rs 1 Crore Life Savings To Help Students Research...
When Dr Pannalal Goswami and Dr Nandita Bhattacharya Goswami retired from Cotton College in 2009, few expected they were also quietly saving towards a single, enormous decision. This July, the...
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Students Sat on Floors. This IAS Officer Brought 42000 Ratlam Children...
For years, hundreds of children in Ratlam's government primary schools (in Madhya Pradesh) spent their mornings the same way: seated cross-legged on bare classroom floors because there were not enough...
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He Left His Global Career to Teach 6 Children. Today, 10000+ Learn Because of...
“Education felt like a privilege, not a certainty.” Ashish Kumar says this because, for many years, school was never guaranteed for him.He grew up in a single rented room with his family of six. His...
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A Fire Destroyed the Second Home of 85 Disabled Children in Delhi. Help...
It's a Tuesday morning, and 16-year-old Bhumika is kneading dough for rotis. Her hands move slowly and unevenly as cerebral palsy makes even this simple task an effort of balance and patience. Her...
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This AI Tool Helps Teachers Save 50% of Planning Time & Gives Them Their...
Before the first bell rings, many teachers are already carrying the work of the previous night into school: notebooks, textbooks, and lesson plans prepared after dinner or late into the evening. The...
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In a Tribal Village in Manipur, Children Learn in Their Own Language Under...
Under the shade of a tall tree in a remote Rongmei village in Manipur, a group of children are busy measuring shadows. Some pace the ground, others argue over angles, a few scribble numbers into...
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Inside One of India’s Most Remote Schools in Sikkim With Just 18 Students
Getting to Pentong village in Sikkim’s Dzongu region is an adventure in itself. The journey involves nearly three hours of off-road travel, crossing a river and climbing more than 100 steps. There is...
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This College in Maharashtra Grows Mangoes That Pay for Its Students' Degrees
On the far edge of Wai, where the Satara hills slope towards the Wai–Panchgani road, a two-acre mango orchard stands beside the boys’ hostel of Kisan Veer Mahavidyalaya. In May, the grove fills with...
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