EducationWorld July 2022

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Experiential learning innovator: Rajesh Panda

-Autar Nehru (Delhi)

Rajesh Panda is founder-managing director of Corporate Gurukul Pte. Ltd (CGPL, estb.2007), a Singapore-based ed-tech company that offers internships and immersive experiential learning programmes to secondary and tertiary education students in partnership with globally top-ranked universities.

Currently, its eight-week online internship and eight-days on-campus programmes in partnership with the National University of Singapore (NUS) […]

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VGI go-getter: Aishwarya Rao

-Reshma Ravishanker (Bengaluru)

Aishwarya Rao is the Coimbatore-based director (academics and administration) of the Vivekalaya Group of Institutions (VGI, estb.1989) which owns and manages the CBSE Vivekalaya Matriculation Higher Secondary School (estb.1989), Akshyantra Learning Centre (1990) offering the NIOS curriculum, the Cambridge (UK)-affiliated The Vivekalaya’s Prakriya International School (2012), the NIOS-affiliated Bodhi Academy (2018) and the […]

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Innovative educator: Preethi Vickram

Aruna Raghuram (Ahmedabad)

A committed proponent of play in early childhood education, Bengaluru-based parenting coach, leadership mentor, educator and edupreneur Preethi Vickram is founder-director of the new-age Cambridge (UK)-affiliated Tapas (derived from the Hindi word tapasya meaning devotion, estb.2020). The school which began operations last June (2021) offers project-based STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and maths) […]

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Indefatigable edupreneur: Pankaj Sharma

-Dipta Joshi (Mumbai)

Pankaj Sharma is president of the Pune-based Lexicon Group (estd.2006) whose education division has promoted three CBSE-affiliated primary-secondary schools, eight preschools and a therapy centre for special children with an aggregate enrolment of 15,000 students. The Lexicon Group has business interests in health and fitness, lifestyle and media.

Newspeg. The group’s latest initiative launched […]

Agnipath: Inadequate ground preparation

The violent protests that erupted last month countrywide against the Central government’s Agnipath armed forces short-term recruitment scheme have further destabilised the post-pandemic economic recovery process already slowed by communal violence, rising unemployment and inflation.

The Agnipath schema reduces the tenure of new recruits into the defence services — army, navy and air force — from […]

Understanding the Nupur Sharma phenomenon

The story of Nupur Sharma is presented as a case of bad behaviour necessitating quick correction. But when one traces the genealogy of the forces ranked behind her, a different story surfaces, writes Shiv Visvanathan

Foreign policy in the age of Trump and Modi is no longer a sedate, ritualistic, rational affair. Bad behaviour and calculated […]

Young Achievers

Young Achiever: Mithun Manjunath

-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)

A South-Eastern Railway employee and trainee at Bengaluru’s world-class Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy (PPBA), Mithun Manjunath is making waves on the international badminton circuit.

In the Super Series 100 tournament of the Badminton World Federation staged in Orleans (France) in April, this 23-year-old, ranked #74 internationally, scored a stunning victory over world #22 Hans-Kristian […]

Palkhivala should be alive at this hour

The sights and sounds of bulldozers razing homes of citizens who had allegedly encroached on government land, which played out on 210 million television screens across the country last month, have severely damaged India’s image as nation of orderly governance and rule of law. Outrage over dispensation of executive justice has provoked six former Supreme […]