Education

Since 2003, one man's free coaching programme in Miyapur has taken over 1,500 children of security guards and domestic workers through school, diploma, and engineering — at zero cost to their families.

From Delhi to Auroville, these schools are experimenting with child-led, arts-based and experiential learning models that place creativity, participation and emotional development alongside academics.

Based on National Statistical Office (NSO) data across India, girls now outnumber boys from school to postgraduate levels. With female enrolment rising to 30.2% in higher education and 76% in MPhil, the shift highlights how sustained policy efforts and social change are improving access and retention for girls.

IPS officer Veerendra Mishra has worked exclusively with the Bedia community for years to help the newer generations escape the cycle of intergenerational sex work. He shares how his efforts have moulded engineers, IAS officers, and lawyers through education.

Aarav Vats continued his studies through chemotherapy sessions while battling lymphoblastic lymphoma. Between hospital visits and textbooks, he held on to learning and emerged with a remarkable 96.6 percent in his CBSE board exams.

Academic and social entrepreneur Dr Brij Kothari is the pioneer behind Same Language Subtitling, a tool hailed the world over for its ability to improve literacy. Here’s how his initiative Billion Readers, or BIRD, is set to transform one billion lives.

In a village in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar district, 86-year-old Anusuya Bai Wadekar appears for a literacy test under the ULLAS programme. Her journey from a childhood without schooling to learning at home unfolds as a moving late-life beginning.

When music becomes a teacher, every lesson becomes enjoyable, is what the Khurana sisters discovered when they started The Sound Space to offer music and allied learning to children from underprivileged communities in Mumbai.

From his Super 30 days to seeing countless students struggle with loans, Jainesh, along with his co-founder, Ankit Mehra, built GyanDhan in Delhi to guide students through the maze of study abroad financing, turning dreams that once seemed impossible into a reality.

Across India, classrooms once overlooked are filling up with fresh energy. A new generation is stepping in with ideas, ambition, and a very different vision for what farming can become.