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03.07.2026
Academic Inflation and the Crisis of Educational Relevance
In one of his most stirring lectures on the future of education, Sir Ken Robinson — arguably one of the greatest educationists of our times — warned of a silent crisis spreading like wildfire: academic inflation. With a wit as sharp as his insight, he explained how degrees are losing their value — not because of declining rigor, but because of their increasing detachment from real-world problems and human advancement.
03.07.2026
The Anxious Generation: India’s Children in the Grip of Screens
It begins quietly, with the dim glow of a screen behind a closed bedroom door. A Jaipur family says their fifteen-year-old son hasn’t joined them for dinner in weeks; he insists he’s “busy,” though everyone knows he is scrolling reels into the small hours of the night. His grades have slipped, his laughter has thinned, and his temper flares when the Wi-Fi is switched off. “We don’t recognize our own child anymore,” his mother admits, her voice breaking. “He looks present, but it’s like his mind is somewhere else.”
03.07.2026
Application and Education !
An eleven-year-old in a Kolkata vegetable market is doing arithmetic that would make a college student pause. A shopper asks for 800 grams of potatoes at ₹20 a kilo, then a kilo and a half of onions at ₹15. He answers in a single breath — ₹37 — takes a ₹200 note, and counts back ₹163 without reaching for paper. Researchers watched children like him solve these problems correctly almost every single time.
03.07.2026
Why Our Classrooms Push Students Away—and How Cognitive Engagement Can Bring Them Back
For decades, India has been exporting its brightest minds at an astonishing rate. The phenomenon of brain drain is no longer an abstract lament. It is a hard reality. Harvard and Stanford classrooms brim with graduates from the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs). A Harvard Business School study (2023) found that nearly 36 percent of the top 1,000 scorers in the IIT entrance exam migrated abroad, and the figure soared to 62 percent among the top 100 scorers. This mass departure is not simply the lure of higher salaries. It is also a silent indictment of the intellectual life in our classrooms back home.
03.07.2026
Education in the Age of Accelerations: Re-imagining Learning Through Application
For over fifteen years, I have been designing and refining curriculum models rooted in application-based pedagogy — a philosophy that insists learning must move beyond instruction into experience. Yet, even today, during faculty meetings and academic workshops, I find myself explaining its essence repeatedly to those who already speak the language of “experiential learning,” “skill integration,” and “NEP implementation.” The gap is not of vocabulary but of understanding. We are fluent in educational rhetoric but hesitant in educational redesign.
03.07.2026
What is the state of Education ?
The applause that greeted the second speaker was courteous, but not celebratory. Perhaps it was because the audience had not yet recovered from the discomfort left behind by the Director's opening question—"What is the state of education?" Perhaps it was because, for the first time in a long while, education was not being discussed through the comforting vocabulary of board results, toppers, admissions and infrastructure. It was being measured against a harsher currency: relevance.