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6 minutes read28 Mar 2025
For decades, formal education has resembled a Procrustean bed—a system that stretches or cuts students to fit a rigid mold, regardless of their needs, talents, or pace. Every child is expected to learn the same material in the same way, at the same time, and at the same speed, in lockstep with their peers. Struggle too long with a concept, and you're left behind. Master it too quickly, and you're...
17 minutes read19 Jan 2022
Think about the past year, 2021 for a second. 2021 felt like five years packed into one. — Joe Biden becomes the President of United States. — SpaceX launches an All-Civilian Flight. — Tokyo Olympics happens. — Kabul falls to Taliban. — Historic breakthroughs (Alphafold/Quantum Supremacy etc) — Pandemic is not done yet (far from it) — Rise of NFTs, DAOs etc Against this backdrop, I was tempted to...
13 minutes read15 Aug 2020
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38 minutes read15 Aug 2020
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30 minutes read15 Aug 2020
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12 minutes read15 Aug 2019
Apologise for the lengthy detour, I promise I will come to my point soon. For the premise of the story, I want to take you back to 2017 when I was confronted by a.. Choice. There are choices we make because we desire them deeply, and there are choices we make because the inertia of the world carries us into them. This was a choice I was led to. In the small towns and cities across India,...
5 minutes read21 Jul 2019
The Lead By Design program started about 5 months back in Auroville, Pondicherry for a group of 11 students from two different communities, the edayanchavadi and kottakarai village communities. It was in the initial phase difficult to get these communities together, especially the parents to allow their children to learn with each other owing to their varied social backgrounds. There were certain...