February 2026
Development that was a mainstay in many global forum - whether it be about poverty alleviation, healthcare, climate change adoption and education, no longer amongst the top headlines in the world in 2026. Since the beginning of 2026, almost the entire headlines has been on war and trade, as though these are the global priorities and not climate change and healthcare. Even Indian media's outlook since the beginning of this year has been on the budget for defense forces, our persistent chest thumping on AI leadership, and implications of US trade tariff on India and the overall politics…
Blaming the education system is one of well fed elite India's pastime. Despite major social leader of the past century (Swami Vivekananda, Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Mahatma Gandhi, and J. Krishnamurthy, being the prominent ones) trying to reform education in their own way, the challenges of irrelevant and unreliable education quality persist. While the persistent challenge is structural, and each one of the above have tried to change the structure, their followers eventually descend to being content with content modifications. The alternatives to mainstream…