Every adult looks back at their childhood as a time of innocence, purity, and happiness. Everyone feels a yearning to return to it. …

I have always said that teachers should be sources of inspiration, rather than just being dispensers of instruction. …

On this Children’s Day, I want to tell you why I set up this school. I will try to write this letter in simplest possible English so that every one of you, from the tiniest ones to the big ones, can read this by yourself. Many of you know that…

I remember I was once coming back from Calcutta with a couple of students and Sayoni — and on the way we typically stop to have tea at a place called Balaji Food Park. Nothing special, just a roadside restaurant, like many others that dot the NH2 near Shaktigarh. As…

In the whole of your adult life, how many times did you use the Avogadro’s law? During your entire work life, did you find any use for the date of Battle of Panipat? How many times did you have to recall the formula for Barium Hydroxide? If you are a…

Our first batch of students will reach class ten next year and will sit for the board exams. Before summer vacation, we call a meeting of their parents. ‘We will have a preparatory exam right after the summer vacation,’ I announce. Everyone perks up. I know nothing stirs the attention…

From class VI, we encourage our students to read newspaper. It is actively driven by the school — we select a few news items from Times of India every day, students are supposed to read them back home. We discuss them in the class in the next day. It is…

(This was a story about the school, and the class I took, that I started writing in 2014–15, intending to publish as a book. With so many other pressing work claiming my time, this was never completed. But I thought I will put up the unfinished work anyway, a bit…

(This was a story about the school, and the class I took, that I started writing in 2014–15, intending to publish as a book. With so many other pressing work claiming my time, this was never completed. But I thought I will put up the unfinished work anyway, a bit…