Digitally yours

Kerala encourages schools to shift to Linux

Theory of evolution under scanner

Another body blow for the myth of choice

Good beginning

What a bad idea, Sirji!

Free the child from all barriers this Independence Day  

 As we celebrate seven decades of independence, we must give all our children the gift of real freedom – from prejudice, barriers, …

Under the umbrella

A residential school in Chamtagora has relieved the anxieties of migrant workers native to the area, who spend most of the year away from their …

Fine imprint

Amartya Sen's collection of essays provides a delicate understanding of contemporary issues that haunt India

No kidding

Mr SUN TAKES A HOLIDAY IN SEARCH OF WATER MADAME AIR WANTS A CHANGE MEET THE SOIL FAIRY Dilip M Salwi Publisher: Ratna Sagar P Ltd, New Delhi …

People are not the planet's pollutants

The consumerist tendency of our society has resulted in the branding of population explosion as the villain in a world that has place for everyone'…

Education must boost unity, end superstition

Learning in the present social context should lay more stress on inculcating social and ethical values that would bring Indians closer to each other.

Who will help her learn?

Merely providing schools is not enough to educate the more than 197.34 million illiterate women in India. Far too often, girls have to drop out …

Defining environment stories

In the Western approach to stories on the environment, topics are wrapped in neat packages: from rainforests to big dams. But writing on rural …

Early education is the key to reducing birth rate

Every rupee invested on four years of primary education for girls would yield returns worth Rs 10 of investment on advertising contraceptive …

When science is fun

Children are more likely to develop the spirit of scientific inquiry when they treat science like a game than when they have to study it.

Dirty RIVER blues

Children of Delhi rediscover Yamuna. And see how everything is being done to reduce it to a drain

Future science

Biological issues took precedence over all others at the recently-held science congress in Chennai

At last in wonderland

Kerala's decentralisation programme is an example of the difference a strong civil society can make

AIDS messages: tell-all, or nothing?

What do Sushma Swaraj and George W Bush have in common? A mutual contempt of condoms, for one. The us president is known to prefer spreading the …

Mother of all management

THE UNION minister for human resource development's election-eve decision to slash Indian Institute of Management (IIM) fees by a third has …

No toilets for girls in one-fifth of India’s schools, enrolment on decline

Dip in number of schools providing midday meals to their students

International Women’s Day: How education can rewrite the story of child marriages in India

Adolescent girls are more vulnerable to child marriage as they drop-out of school before completing education. Here’s an attempt at …

Simply Put: NEET Centre

Simply put: Engineers beware

Africa: Why Uganda’s English language policy is failing rural children

Learners faced various challenges in learning and acquiring English