Essays

The Essays

Positions, not consensus.

A mother and her child. The first moral education is the one nobody announces.
Character

Raising a Moral Child

Dr. Aradhana (Bela) Sood Senior Professor for Child and Mental Health Policy, VCU Health
6 min read
Saraswati, goddess of learning. What a civilisation asks of its classrooms, it first asks of itself.
Education

Two Voices on the Classroom Republic

Achyut Tiwari & Shiv Kunal Verma
10 min read
At Gelling Gompa near Tuting in Arunachal, masks stare out from another world, their painted faces carrying whispers of ritual, fear and faith in a land where the sacred still breathes through wood, colour and shadow.
Frontier

A Soldier's View from the Frontier

Lt. Gen. K.T. Parnaik (Retd.) State Emblem of India Governor of Arunachal Pradesh
13 min read
The tools are there. The question is what values we build alongside them.
Education

The Foundation We Forgot

Rajinder Pal Devgan Chairman of Learning Forward India, Advisory Panel of Fortress India
12 min read