A tidal wave of new-age, cutting-edge innovations across India is exemplifying that no development challenge is too big to solve. Frontier technologies — emerging, innovative interventions with the potential to
A tidal wave of new-age, cutting-edge innovations across India is exemplifying that no development challenge is too big to solve. Frontier technologies — emerging, innovative interventions with the potential to
The interviews and reporting for this story were conducted in February 2025. A young boy in a remote village in Tamil Nadu carefully places a VR headset over his eyes.
“If these children start studying, then who will make the bricks? Do you expect our children to work at the kilns?” Jharkhand native Anshu Jaiswal couldn’t believe his ears. He’d
“How much of what you studied in school do you put to use in life?” Hyderabad-based Vaishnavi Anantha asks me. She takes my silence as a cue to go
The air in Malihabad, Uttar Pradesh, is fragrant with mango orchards. Inside a sunlit classroom at Vidyasthali School, a different kind of change is taking root. “Today we will study
It’s a long walk through the forest — 10 kilometres, to be precise. She must set out early; how else will she reach school on time? Yet every step is
On a warm afternoon in Katelapura village of Rajasthan’s Dholpur district, the Government Upper Primary School buzzed with unusual excitement. Small hands clutched slips of paper, the sound of campaigning
The interviews and reporting for this story were conducted in August 2024. Biplab, a class 8 student in the Bagdabra forest area in Murshidabad, West Bengal, is a first-generation learner.
It was an unseasonal spell of October rain that flattened a cabbage crop in a Vadodara school. A group of children stood speechless before it, then tears rolled down their
At Delhi airport, you’ll often spot families sending off their children with heavy suitcases and even heavier hearts. For students, it’s the beginning of an exciting new chapter — new