First published in The Hindu, 4 May 2024 Failure. The very word stings. Because failure has strong negative connotations, including scarring us permanently, we tend to avoid it at all costs. However, none of us started off believing that failure…
Teachers are the pillars of a school. They must be supported and mentored to inspire students to seek higher, wider and deeper. The principal or the school head and managements play a significant role in how teachers perceive themselves and…
Meetings, targets, reviews, growth curves, acquisitions, deadlines, productivity logs, sales figures—if your mind is consumed by work and nothing else, perhaps it’s time to review (oops, not that word again) or evaluate your life.
First published in The Hindu, 30 Mar 2024 You have a one-hour commute to college. As you find it hard to read in a moving vehicle, you opt for an audiobook. But instead of a novel, you decide to plough…
First published in DH Education, 27 March 2024 With the academic year-end in sight, teachers will have their hands full gradingassignments, exams, and projects. While grades and marks provide an index of how astudent has fared overall in a subject,…
First published in The hindi, 2 March 2024 Though the idea of babies being born with a “tabula rasa,” or blank slate has been discredited by psychological research, this construct, that was championed by philosopher John Locke, resonates with the…
Neha took to her job at a start-up, right out of college, like a fish to water. Working in the ed-tech space, she was buoyed by the idea of serving a greater purpose while also being independent. The team was…
First published in Teacher Plus, March 2024 On your way to school, an aggressive driver curses you and overtakes your car. As you reach the school gates, a parent is yelling at a child for having forgotten his science project….
Though we may associate mindfulness, as practiced traditionally, with sages meditating in caves and forests, the construct, and more importantly, its practice, has a lot of relevance to modern lives. At its core, mindfulness is how we choose to practice…
First published in The Hindu, 03 Feb 2024 Being amiable, adaptable and accommodating are prosocial attributes that are generally positively regarded. But like all good things, if they’re taken too far, they can be detrimental to a person’s wellbeing. Though…
