In 2005, a young chartered accountant stood on the manicured lawns of the Harvard Business School with two drastically diverging paths before him. On one hand was an offer letter from McKinsey & Company in New York City: an enviable $$175,000$ starting salary, the gold standard of corporate security, and a predictable route to pay […]
There is a curious moment in adulthood that most people recognise but rarely examine. A manager receives criticism and, despite years of professional experience, reacts like a child being scolded at school. A parent hears their teenager challenge a decision and immediately responds in the same language their own parents once used with them. A
For years, the education industry sold parents a simple promise: the earlier a child enters the digital world, the better prepared they will be for the future. A tablet in preschool. Coding before primary school. Smart boards in every classroom. AI-powered learning before a child has properly learned to write. But in one of the
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There are some stories we inherit so early in life that we stop questioning them. Christopher Columbus discovered America. Everyone knows this It is one of those sentences that can be found in schoolbooks, repeated in classrooms and absorbed into popular memory. But the more closely you look at the history, the more complicated—and more
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There is a strange thing about podcasts: the more of them we have, the harder it becomes to make one matter. Today, almost anyone can get a great guest, record in a beautiful studio, produce cinematic video and distribute it everywhere. Yet most conversations disappear almost as quickly as they appear. Perhaps the problem is
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For a student in Class 12, one of the biggest decisions is also one of the hardest: “What should I do after school?” And too often, the answer is influenced by marks, friends, family expectations, social media trends or simply what everyone else seems to be doing. But choosing a career is not about following
The Indian Government’s AI Resource Hub That You Need to Know If You Are in Education
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The global and Indian educational technology sectors are undergoing a profound structural realignment following the collapse of the pandemic-era digital learning boom. Capital deployment into Indian EdTech platforms reached an unsustainable zenith in 2021 before experiencing a systemic contraction, with total venture funding falling from USD 2.6 billion in 2022 to USD 297.3 million in
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As Artificial Intelligence rapidly evolves, educational stakeholders across India face a pivotal question: Will AI disrupt academic integrity or democratize high-quality learning? Drawing from Sal Khan’s seminal TED Talk, “How AI Could Save (Not Destroy) Education,” this article examines how generative AI can solve age-old pedagogical challenges—from personalized 1-on-1 tutoring to reducing teacher burnout—while establishing
