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 Published In Education Times, Times of India, p-2, on 8 December, 2008.

Wonders of class library 

Class library is a wonderful way of ushering children into reading and writing. read more

Nearly 90% (in my view) of child laborers are rural children. Most migrate to cities and end up begging, prostitution, domestic helpers, or other odd jobs. Child labour issue can not be dealt until and unless concerned organizations influence appropriate Governments to reevaluate the economic policies and rural economic growth. Till now rural economy is only known as agricultural economy and never emphasized on add-on value products. Governments have to consider growing and generating rural employment. read more

Seven years ago, Marc Prensky authored a seminal article titled Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants- in which he coined and used these now-famous phrases to describe (respectively) the students of today who are “native speakers” of the digital language of computers, video games and the Internet; and those of us who were not born in read more

From the time I read "Screwtape Letters" I loved the ease with which C.S.Lewis wrote. I kept reading his books and felt envious; he never seemed to stop in his stride or miss a beat. His critical works like "The Discarded Image", sci-fi trilogy and books like "Mere Christianity" are all justly famous.Even an incomplete story of his that I found and read avidly, on Helen and an eidolon, after she became old, etched itself in my mind. read more

I want to revive this book and this writer. All I can say is he matters.

Speaking of his first novel Last Train to Innocence, he says, "It was largely autobiographical. It wasn't a novel, it was meant to be snippets of my childhood mainly for Shahana (author's note: his daughter). I wanted her to know about her grandparents and my childhood in Dehradun. When I showed these snippets to my friends Amit Chaudhuri and Shobha De they felt it has the making of a novel. So I put it together and sent it to Penguin for publishing. read more

The latest issue of India Today has a small piece on Arun Kapur of Vasant Valley School, New Delhi who has authored a new book on education in India - "Transforming Schools - Empowering Children". It would be great if other educators who may have read the book could share their opinions about the book. read more