World Mental Health Day serves as a powerful reminder that there is no health without mental health. The 2025 campaign theme, “Mental Health in Humanitarian Emergencies,” draws attention to the urgent need to address the mental health and psychosocial needs of individuals and communities affected by crises such as conflicts, natural disasters, and public health emergencies. According to the World …
By Siddharth Rajgarhia We often believe that our role as educators begins with curriculum and ends with assessment. But beneath the lesson plans and gradebooks lies a more delicate, more profound truth: we are custodians of growing hearts navigating a world more complex than we ever faced. Each child walks into school not just with a backpack of books, but …
Silvin Additives, a leading manufacturer of PVC and CPVC additives, is set to expand its pioneering education initiative, introducing Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) to school students in Bodeli in Vadodara district. The initiative is a part of Silvin’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The programme aims to equip young learners with life skills such as confidence, resilience, focus and emotional intelligence, qualities …
On the birth anniversary of Sir M. Visvesvaraya, #EngineersDay2025, let’s commit to designing not just structures and systems, but resilient communities, equitable solutions, and a sustainable future. And, importantly let the occasion serve a reminder of India’s urgent need for a resurgence of core engineering For over three decades, India’s idea of “engineering” has been almost synonymous with IT. The …
Political literacy—defined as the ability to critically analyze manifestos, evaluate policy impacts, and identify credible information—must advance alongside economic and digital literacy. Building such literacy is a collective responsibility, requiring coordinated efforts from education, media, civil society, and technology writes Priyal Bhardwaj India, as the world’s largest democracy, conducts a remarkable political exercise every five years to elect the Parliament …
The annual NIRF Rankings 2025 arrived this September—four months late, shrouded in rumors that the exercise might be scrapped altogether. For weeks, skeptics, global lobbyists, and their local collaborators whispered that India’s decade-long experiment with homegrown rankings had collapsed. And yet, the NIRF survived. Not just survived, but expanded—marking ten uninterrupted years of a project often derided as bureaucratic, opaque, …
