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30-YO Teacher in Rural Karnataka Built Jugaad Robot to Make Learning Fun for...
Dressed in a blue shirt and tunic, with neatly parted hair styled into two pleats, the humanoid robot named ‘Shiksha’ bears a striking resemblance to the rest of the students of Sirsa village. As she...
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Constable’s Free School is Helping Kids in Delhi’s Slums Escape a Life of...
When his parents would leave home for work, 10-year-old Ajay Ahirwal would accompany them to tourist spots across Delhi, where his father worked as a labourer. He, too, would engage in menial work,...
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‘It Didn’t Occur Overnight’: How a Headmaster Transformed His Village’s...
At the Nigagundi Ambedkar School, you’ll be greeted with vibrant, colourful walls, plush infrastructure, lush trees and a sprawling garden, and a library stacked with pictorial books and audio-visual...
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Bridging Invisible Gaps in Education: A Moving Story Shows Us How
This article has been powered by P&G Shiksha. In a classroom where most students eagerly seek the teacher’s attention and recognition, Bindiya prefers to go into hiding. Whether it’s hiding...
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Assam Woman Has Given 22 Years to Bring Education to Tribal Groups & Help...
Trigger warning: This story contains mentions of violence, torture At a learning centre in Lumding, Assam, children from the local tribes come faithfully every day to engage in a slew of activities...
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Why A 72-YO Is Teaching Educators How to Use Puppets for Storytelling
What makes 72-year-old Lata Satagopan so passionate about using puppetry in education? Her strong belief that it is a technique well suited to storytelling. And storytelling, in turn, is an effective...
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70-YO Doctor Helps Bihar’s Musahar Community Break Shackles of Child Marriage...
On a regular day in Bihar, Seema Kumari found herself engrossed in her usual household chores when her father unexpectedly requested her to get ready as they were expecting visitors. Oblivious to the...
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‘Play Is Education’: 2 Bengalureans Use Play To Empower 50000 Kids in &...
When Saumil Majmudar and Parminder Gill set up Sportz Village in 2003, it was to highlight why ‘play’ is important in a child’s overall development. Gill notes, “Some of us felt strongly that play...
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Teacher’s Incredible Journey of Building an English-Medium School in Remote...
“It took me so many years, but I did not give up on my dream,” says Satarupa Majumder, a 47-year-old teacher from Kolkata. Her dream was to take education to one of the remotest areas of the...
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A 16-YO & His Brilliant Idea Help Delhi’s Underprivileged Kids Access Free...
Ten-year-old Prince Singh’s excitement is unmissable as the clock strikes 2 pm, signalling the end of the school day at SDMC Pratibha Vidyalaya in Delhi’s Defence Colony. His favourite part of the day...
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Ex-Journalist Honours Dad’s Memory with Free Boarding School in India’s...
Trigger warning: This story contains mentions of depression and anxiety. The fondest memory that Portia Putatunda has of her departed father is of him playing and singing nursery rhymes with children....
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Play, Learn, Grow, Repeat: A Peak Inside India’s Innovative, DIY, Sustainable...
This article was published in collaboration with EkStep Foundation. When Pooja Rai was a student of architecture at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, she would volunteer at Disha...
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Playgrounds for India: Why We Need to Reclaim & Build Spaces for Our Kids
This article was published in collaboration with EkStep Foundation. When Anthill Creations, a Bengaluru-based non-profit organisation building low cost and sustainable playgrounds around the country,...
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Could Inclusive Education for Kids With Disabilities Transform Indian...
This article has been published in partnership with EkStep Foundation. In the late 1800s, when Dr Maria Montessori was working at a psychiatric clinic in Rome, she would often visit asylums for...
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‘Wanted To Break the Cycle of Poverty’: How Kashmir’s Daily Wager Cracked...
Nestled amid the lush green hills of Pulwama district in Kashmir, the quaint little village of Zagi Gam did not see much attention from the world, until recently. A native of the village, 19-year-old...
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Learn With Memes? How 2 Friends Use YouTube to Make Complicated Lessons ‘Not...
What is a memory you still cherish from your school and college days? For childhood friends Atharva Puranik and Pranay Chouhan, who are now in their early twenties, one of their fondest memories is of...
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What Happens to Migrant Workers’ Kids? 6 Friends Help 4000 Join Mainstream...
Every year, tens of thousands of impoverished families leave the comforts of their homes and migrate to urban areas in search of livelihood opportunities. While they find new jobs and homes, what...
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‘I Lost Vision At 3’: 66-YO Provides Free Education & Shelter to Girls With...
“Who, if not myself?” remained an ever-present query that fueled the determination of Dattu Agarwal, now 66 years old. Living with visual impairment, Dattu consistently pondered over the lives of...
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Using Play to Teach Lakhs, Couple Helps Kids from Low-Cost Schools Pursue...
Imagine you are tasked with delivering a speech or a business plan in front of an audience, but you fail to communicate your idea, speaking mostly with fillers in your sentences. Back in school, you...
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Engineer Uses Animated NCERT Syllabus To Turn Classrooms in 1000 Govt Schools...
Madhya Pradesh’s Siya Umesh Jariya does not yawn in class anymore. For the Class 8 student at a government school in Indore, learning is now fun, because she studies regular subjects through animated...
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