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India @ 2025: Capitalism, Convenience… or Carefully-Packaged Monopoly?

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When Giants Stumble: India’s Economy on the Edge of Monopoly

IndiGo’s recent flight cancellations have thrown India’s aviation sector into chaos, with over 2,000 flights cancelled and thousands of passengers stranded since early December 2025. The crisis, triggered by crew shortages and non-compliance with new Flight Duty Time Limitations (FDTL) rules, has exposed how much India’s skies—and its economy—are now reliant on a single giant. […]

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Consciousness looks like a battle with outer chaos and inner clarity

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Consciousness looks like a battle with outer chaos and inner clarity

Something shifted in me over the past few years. Not because of a new job, a promotion, or any dramatic external event, but because life pushed me inward. Losing people close to me—one relationship left unresolved, and later my father—quietly rearranged how I looked at everything. The day they left, the questions became sharper. Where

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When No Becomes a Breaking News: The Untold Story of Oversensitive Students

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When No Becomes a Breaking News Event: The Untold Story of Oversensitive Students

Every time teachers sit together and talk about mental health, someone eventually sighs and says it — students today are too sensitive. And not sensitive like heartfelt-poem-writing sensitive. Sensitive like… one small correction and their emotional Wi-Fi disconnects. Before you picture strict teachers with thermocol rulers, let’s be fair: they’re not complaining. They’re confused.How did

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Why Technology Alone Can’t Teach India: The Real Path to Meaningful IKS Learning

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Why Technology Alone Can’t Teach India: The Real Path to Meaningful IKS Learning

We love calling technology the magic wand of education.And with 25 crore students, who wouldn’t want a shortcut? But here’s the truth no app store wants to admit:Tech-enabled education is a business plan. Education itself is a human plan.Especially when we talk about Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS), which is less of a subject and more

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How India Can Bring IKS to Every Classroom: A District-First Strategy for Real Educational Change

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India’s education map is huge. We’re talking about 25 crore students, 1.01 crore teachers, 15 lakh schools, and 770 districts. With numbers like these, you don’t need binoculars—you need strategy. Yesterday, at the International Conference on Indian Knowledge Systems in School Education, jointly organised by Sri Aurobindo Society, Maharishi University (Fairfield, USA), Lal Bahadur Shastri

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When Teachers Say, “We Need to Teach Parents More Than Children”

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When Teachers Say, “We Need to Teach Parents More Than Children”

It happened during one of my recent teacher training sessions.We were discussing classroom challenges when a teacher at the back raised her hand and said something that made everyone pause: “Ma’am, sometimes it feels like we need to teach parents more than children.” A ripple of quiet laughter went around the room—but behind that laughter

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Why Teachers Are Irreplaceable in the Age of AI

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Why Teachers Are Irreplaceable in the Age of AI

When Google gave us information, teachers adapted. They started helping students connect dots, turning scattered facts into knowledge. Then came ChatGPT and Gemini, able to mimic that very process — linking, summarising, explaining. So the big question many ask is: what’s left for teachers? The answer: everything that makes learning human. Experience as Wisdom A

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They Expected Stilettos and Sass. They Got a Saree and Substance.

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They Expected Stilettos and Sass. They Got a Saree and Substance.

I wasn’t in an off-shoulder dress, a knee-above skirt, or two-inch heels.I was in a saree — crisp, comfortable, and unapologetically mine. But apparently, that’s not what my bio made people expect. Which is fascinating, because nowhere in my LinkedIn profile have I ever typed:“Fashion icon with a fondness for runway-ready entrances.” Yet, here we

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What If We Taught Our Kids to Start a Business Before They Learn to Write a Résumé?

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Here’s a thought that might shake you: By the time we tell kids to “think like an entrepreneur”… they’ve already been trained to play it safe. Now pause.What if entrepreneurship wasn’t just for MBA grads or 20-somethings in co-working cafés? 💥 What if it started in Class 6? 👇Let me tell you about a student

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