Published in Education Times, TOI, Delhi on 14th July, 2008

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Here is an essay I wrote during my PPSE course facilitated by Tara Kini and Shuchi Grover. It is really heavy duty stuff put in a simple way.

Hope those who are really interested in the theory of education enjoy it

"It's an education project, not a laptop project" is how Nicholas Negroponte describes the landmark One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project that leverages affordable technology for education.

Last July, India rejected the OLPC idea as "pedagogically suspect" and not "mature enough to be taken seriously at this stage". The announcement must have come as a blow to the project given the size of the Indian market for the product. read more