India boasts of a huge variety of languages and dialects. Many of these languages do not have scripts of their own. In fact many of them are on the brink of fading away into oblivion owing to the trend of people migrating to modern cities and hence newer cultures. However, a small academy in Gujarat is standing tall to save these languages from dying. Anand Giridharadas writes in this article on how the Adivasi Academy, based in Tejgadh, Gujarat, is working towards chronicling elements of rural culture.

Shikshantar hosts a variety of activities, including cultivating projects that challenge dominant systems of education and economy.

Ravi Gulati left a corporate job and took to teaching children of drivers, barbers and maids near his home in New Delhi's Khan Market. Today, in his unusual classroom every student is a teacher and every teacher a student.

With its firm belief in ‘Learning by Doing’, Vigyan Ashram at Pabal, Maharashtra has, over past 3 decades, transformed the lives of hundreds of rural youth who the mainstream education system might have rejected as ‘failures’. A modern version of the Gurukula system, “Vigyan” means ‘Search of Truth’ and “Ashram” symbolises ‘simple living and high thinking”.

Piyush Sethia is an activist of the 21st century. Candid, honest and passionate to the core. He has for the city of Salem, Tamil Nadu with every last drop of integrity. Rejuvenating lakes, creating co-operative forests, teaching organic farming to children and running a Citizen’s forum. Attached is a short glimpse into the life of an activist.

Sadhana School is located in a village near Pune, Maharashtra. A space where children are free to BE, teachers learn to learn again, learn from children how to be, children are respected and acknowledged that they are born with capacity to make sense of the world through free play. What we try to do is to create conditions for learning to happen. ‘Space’ where knowing happens by being, where ‘Knower’ is the primary subject of enquiry and ‘awakening the knower’ is the objective of learning

Aarohi School is based in Bangalore. Aarohi Life Education team is a mix of parents and facilitators who want to dream and drive the concept of open, organic and child driven learning for Life. As Aarohi evolves, we are constantly learning, trying, erring, fighting, caring, enjoying, and growing.

Dola Dasgupta is an unschooling mother of two children and a co-founder of Swashikshan–Indian Association of Homeschoolers. Swashikshan is a non-profit initiative of homeschooling children, parents, guardians and friends. The members of this association include homeschoolers residing in India, irrespective of nationality & homeschoolers of Indian origin, irrespective of location.

The state government is promoting a significant conversion to organic farming, and opening "livelihood schools” (first such schools in India) for this purpose. A total of 50,000 hectares of land belonging to around 62,000 families will be covered under organic farming by 2015.