Category: Education

To help us retain the information about the Second World War, Rani Miss, our History teacher, divided the class into three groups. A few students were the Axis powers, another set was the Allied powers, and the rest were bodies like the League of Nations and the UN. A History class that could have been...

Fixing higher education requires completely redesigning how we recruit, train, and support faculty, while overhauling the legacy administrative and disciplinary protocols that govern our campuses. Ask the toppers of any graduating class what they want to do next- university teaching rarely tops the list. The reason is simple: teaching is not perceived as a competitive,...

Walk into MIT, Stanford, Caltech, or Bell Labs, and you will find Indian-origin scientists driving quantum computing, mRNA therapeutics, agentic AI, and graphics processor design. They run corporate research divisions, win Nobel Prizes, and turn lab prototypes into trillion-dollar companies. Their schooling, their instincts, their work ethic—all of them trace back to India. (Sign up...

Walk into MIT, Stanford, Caltech, or Bell Labs, and you will find Indian-origin scientists driving quantum computing, mRNA therapeutics, agentic AI, and graphics processor design. They run corporate research divisions, win Nobel Prizes, and turn lab prototypes into trillion-dollar companies. Their schooling, their instincts, their work ethic—all of them trace back to India. (Sign up...

Each one of us has questions throughout our life. And we know the answers to only a few. Efforts of varying degrees go into getting the answer. We can ask our parents, teachers, friends, a book, an article, the internet or an expert who helps us find the answer. The process takes time, which means many failed attempts and a lot of reflections. But since 2023, we have a new answering...

In March 2026, IIT Kharagpur—the oldest Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) that has been training thousands of minds to design bridges, cars, and computer chips for the last 75 years did something unprecedented. It formally applied to the National Medical Commission (NMC) to offer a postgraduate medical degree, the Doctor of Medicine (MD). (Sign up...