Author: BharatSpeaks
High above the Doon Valley, where the air is crisp and quiet, 89-year-old Ruskin Bond still writes in longhand — perched in his ivy-covered cottage in Landour. The world may have changed beyond recognition since he published his first novel in 1956, but for millions of Indian children, his stories remain unchanged — gentle, enduring, and true. While TikTok trends rise and fall and classrooms move online, Bond’s writing offers something that modern media rarely does: stillness. “My stories are not about heroes or villains,” Mr. Bond once said. “They’re about ordinary people, and the things that make life quietly…
On exam days in Karnataka, when silence descends upon classrooms and pens scratch across answer sheets, Pushpa NM quietly takes her seat—not as a student, but as a scribe. For the past 17 years, the 42-year-old school assistant has been lending her hand—literally—to others. She has written 1,086 examinations for students with disabilities. All of it, she’s done free of charge. “I write for them so they don’t have to stop dreaming,” she says in Kannada, her voice barely above a whisper. A Pen That Speaks for Others Pushpa’s story begins in 2007, when a local school approached her to…
In a world that often demands quiet conformity, Tanvi, a young woman from India, chose not to meet the expectations set for her. She had no interest in being “normal.” Instead, she turned her difference into a declaration. Now known by the name many have given her — “Tanvi the Great” — she has emerged as a powerful voice in the growing conversation about identity, ability, and what society calls limitation. “I’m not here to be inspirational because I live differently,” she says. “I’m here because I live truthfully.” Strength, Rewritten Born with a condition that marked her early on…
In a modest engineering college in rural Telangana, Ravi Kumar, 22, adjusts the projector in his final-year classroom as he prepares for his campus placement interview. His confidence, however, wavers—not because of lack of ambition, but because, like thousands of his peers across the country, he knows the odds are stacked against him. Despite earning an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering, Ravi has never been inside a real factory or worked on a live industry project. His practical experience is limited to lab manuals and mock assessments. “The syllabus is old, and we only get theoretical knowledge,” he says quietly.…
In a quiet but radical shift that could redefine classroom learning in India, the southern state of Kerala has become the first in the country to make robotics education compulsory for students in Class 10. The policy, set to be rolled out in the upcoming 2025–2026 academic session, marks a significant expansion of the state’s long-standing focus on digital literacy and technological inclusion in public education. It places Kerala at the forefront of a broader push to integrate 21st-century skills into India’s mainstream curriculum. A Digital Leap in Public Education The curriculum, designed by the Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for…
In the quiet lanes of old Lucknow, amid the fading grandeur of domes and latticework, a resurrection is underway. At the heart of it lies a simple but powerful idea: that a city’s culture lives not just in its monuments, but in its music, its craft, and the memories of its people. This idea has taken shape in the form of the Lucknow Bioscope, a dynamic cultural space developed under the banner of the Sanatkada Lucknow Festival. Part archive, part storytelling space, part tribute—it is a living museum devoted to preserving and celebrating the intangible spirit of a city once…