A policy analysis of NITI Aayog’s 2026 school complex recommendations, and the formal authority still missing from them India has largely solved the access problem in school education. Nearly 50% of school-going children attend one of over 10 lakh government-run schools, enrollment at the elementary stage is near universal,and basic infrastructure such as toilets, electricity,…
A student scores well in an exam. A week later, someone asks them to explain the same concept in their own words, and they go blank. The answer they’d memorised is just… gone. If you’ve spent any time around Indian classrooms, this probably feels familiar. It is not a rare glitch, but a systemic pattern…
What is Reform? In school, most students come across concepts that are difficult to understand the first time they are taught. A change in the teaching method can sometimes make the same concept much easier to learn. In a physical education class, a teacher spent several sessions explaining tournament fixtures on the blackboard. How teams…
Some days it feels like everything will work out… and some days, you’re honestly not sure. So… what does fundraising actually feel like? If you have never worked in fundraising, it probably looks pretty straightforward from the outside. You find a donor, pitch your work, they say yes (hopefully), and the money comes in. Done.…
Prime Minister Modi’s Viksit Bharat mission aims to make India a developed country by 2047. This goal is not just about economic growth. It means structural transformation across human capital, governance, and social institutions. Education is central to that transformation because it both transmits culture and prepares citizens for the demands of a changing global…
I never expected to feel inspired by a dashboard packed with numbers, yet now I’m driven by data and its stories. Any data set is just a collection of numbers until it begins to make sense and pushes you to ask deeper questions. That’s where my journey began. As a mechanical engineer, I never imagined…
My month-long internship at Mantra4Change was an immersion into the ecosystem of educational reform. From January 2 to January 30, 2026, I had the opportunity to work with the communications team, and the experience reshaped my understanding of how NGOs operate, interact, and drive impact in the education sector. One of the first things I…