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Teaching on the Margins:Inside the First Clear-Cut Education Awards 2026

Yatharth PathakNovember 2, 2026November 2, 202608 mins

The inaugural Clear-Cut Education Awards 2026 recognised four organisations working to improve learning opportunities for vulnerable children across India. Katha, Jamghat Pathshala, NEAID and Agrasar Foundation were honoured for their innovative approaches to community-led education, school transformation and inclusive learning. Thirty-three years separate the oldest and youngest of this year’s winners. Katha began in 1988…

CSR Can’t Fix India’s Education Crisis Alone: Experts Call for Smarter Funding

Yatharth PathakOctober 10, 202606 mins

Experts argued that India must spend on what strengthens learning systems, fund behaviour changes with patient capital, and build sustainability in from day one Education financing in India needs to shift from spending more to spending on what strengthens learning, and corporate social responsibility (CSR) can catalyse change but cannot carry the system, panellists remark…

Enrolled, But Not Included: Why India’s Education System Still Leaves Children Behind

Yatharth PathakOctober 8, 202607 mins

Inclusive education in India continues to face barriers for children with disabilities and other disadvantaged groups, limiting meaningful access to learning. The Clear-Cut Education Summit 2026 highlighted gaps in accessibility, foundational learning, invisible disabilities and education support, with experts calling for systemic changes in education policy and inclusion to ensure no child is left behind….

Pencil portraits of Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel, with neurons and algae illustrating optogenetics.

Nobel Prize in Medicine 2026: How Scientists Use Light to Study the Brain

adminOctober 7, 2026October 7, 202609 mins

The discovery behind the 2026 Nobel Prize began with algae. It gave scientists a way to control selected nerve cells with light, and understand more about how the brain works. This sounds like the opening of a science-fiction film. Scientists take a light-sensitive protein from algae, introduce it into nerve cells and make those cells…

Kiran Bedi Calls for Education Beyond Academics at Clear-Cut Education Summit 2026

adminOctober 1, 2026October 3, 2026015 mins

At the inaugural Clear-Cut Education Summit 2026 in New Delhi, education leaders, practitioners, researchers and innovators called for a wider understanding of learning one that goes beyond enrolment, examinations and foundational skills to include thinking, inclusion, character, technology, evidence and the realities children face outside school. New Delhi, October 1, 2026: Getting children into school…

Red Fort Set for Grand 80th Independence Day Celebrations

adminAugust 15, 2026August 15, 202605 mins

NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hoist the national flag at the Red Fort on August 15 to mark India’s 80th Independence Day, with most of the roughly 5,000 special invitees drawn from beneficiaries of central government welfare schemes rather than the political or diplomatic circuit typically associated with VIP guest lists, according…

From Participation to Podium: India’s Growth Story at the Commonwealth Games

adminAugust 5, 2026August 5, 202609 mins

This was a type of photo that used to capture India at the Commonwealth Games: a small, earnest group of athletes walking behind the flag in an opening ceremony, which were there less as they were hoping to win medals, and more as they were staging a gesture of Commonwealth belonging. This picture is a…

Three Weeks, A Crowded Agenda: What India’s Monsoon Session Must Actually Deliver

adminJuly 4, 2026July 4, 202607 mins

THREE WEEKS TO CLEAR A BACKLOG BUILT OVER MONTHS Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju has confirmed the dates: India’s 2026 Monsoon Session will run from July 21 to August 12, a roughly 3-week window that, by design, overlaps with the southwest monsoon at its peak intensity in the national capital. The compressed timeline carries unusual…

Fifty-Nine Years, One Election: How An Actor’s Party Ended Dravidian Politics’ Longest Run

adminJuly 2, 2026July 2, 202607 mins

Actor turned politician c. joseph vijay(tvk) celebrates after historic victory in the 2026 assembly elections THE SEAT STALIN WON THREE TIMES AND LOST THE FOURTH M.K. Stalin had won the Kolathur constituency three consecutive times. On May 4, 2026, when the Election Commission of India (ECI) declared Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election results. The election…

Fifteen Years Old, Seventy-Two Sixes: The Season That Forced Indian Cricket To Ask Harder Questions

adminJuly 2, 2026July 2, 202607 mins

A BONE DENSITY TEST AND A BATTING AVERAGE THAT DOESN’T NEED ONE There are two separate conversations happening about Vaibhav Sooryavanshi this year, and Indian cricket has not yet figured out how to hold both at once. The first conversation is about numbers so extraordinary they read like typos: 776 runs in IPL 2026, a…