School

Growing up, the school is a second home for most of us, where the teacher dons the role of a second parent. But what if a student did not leave the first home for the second and was taught by her biological parents?

Ever since he retired 24 years earlier, Shri Krishnan Sharma has never missed a single day of teaching. In fact, his conviction has inspired other retired teachers to return to their schools!

A recent meeting of the board’s governing body decided that the subject would be introduced in classes 8, 9 and 10 as a skill subject.

“I had heard about a tech giant in the city giving its employees 40 hours of leave to enable them to participate in community development programmes. Given that in schools, we already have enough holidays, I modified the plan to suit our needs.”

The lifeblood of a one-teacher school deep within the lushly forested Agasthyavanam biosphere, Usha Kumari has been literally going the extra mile for her students every single day for 16 years now! #RealLifeHeroine #Respect #Education

We are celebrating his success because he achieved it after numerous struggles since his early years. When he was in school, he was diagnosed with dyslexia, which brought its own share of troubles.

This November, Flipkart decided to make Children's day extra special for 5,000 students of 24 government schools across Karnataka, and they invited their customers from across India to join them in this heartwarming initiative!

We frequently hear ideologues using the moral appeal of this project to argue for an economic restructuring of the society. These approaches make little sense because they do not recognise that apart from being economically inefficient and thus an obstacle both to economic growth and social development, child labour is also a moral evil.

On the evening of November 26, 2008, Mishrilal was ferrying two passengers to the railway station – his sister Vijayi and her husband, Ramkomal Khushwaha - to the railway station. Mishrilal was, unfortunately, one among many who died that night. He took a bullet to his chest.

Trisha Bhattacharya and Soorya Balasubramanian, students of classes 9 and 10 from Vibgyor High School in Goregaon, were behind this initiative.