For more than a century, humanity had a quiet superpower. Each generation got sharper than the one before it. Better food. Better schools. Better medicine. IQ scores climbed year after year, so reliably that psychologists gave it a name: the Flynn Effect. Then something strange happened. Around the time smartphones slipped into backpacks and bedrooms, […]
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From Svyambhu to FutureIcons: How Self-Reliance Became a Living Movement Big change rarely begins with big money.It begins with a simple question: what if people already have what they need, and we just help them see it? That question sat at the heart of Project Svyambhu, when our founder Dr Akshita Bahuguna first called for
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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.
India @ 2025: Capitalism, Convenience… or Carefully-Packaged Monopoly? Read More »
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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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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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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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
Let’s get one thing straight — teaching in the 21st century isn’t about standing at the front of the room and performing a daily TED Talk. It’s about leading a learning revolution, one curious mind at a time. So here’s the promotion you didn’t know you’d earned — you’re not just a teacher, you’re the
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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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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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