There are many ways of conceiving and understanding the needs of the whole child in balance with the needs of the community and society at large.

Tara books has always been a worker-owned cooperative of artists, writers, and designers. Young bookmaking artisans are trained here, and nurtured to develop a livelihood that not only supports their families but also preserves their tradition and culture.

Right to Free And Compulsory Education Act 2009 It is a RIGHT It is FREE It is COMPULSORY It is about EDUCATION A legally guaranteed power to a citizen. One of the seven Fundamental Rights

Nagaland state's legal move to decentralise a part of the governance of education, health and power has had interesting results

....the story of R Elango, a Dalit leader turning his village into a Model village in India

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.

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”.

In 1965 a young post graduate student, SANJIT “BUNKER” ROY volunteered to spend the summer working with famine affected people in Palamu District Bihar, now Jharkhand, one of the poorest of India’s states. His urban elitist upbringing had distanced him from poverty and destitution. This experience changed him, and formed the determination to fight poverty and inequality. It became his mission. The idea of the SWRC (Social Works and Research Centre), Tilonia emerged from these concerns.

Adharshila Learning Centre is situated in a tribal village in Madhya Pradesh, India. It is a place for learning, a children's space, an experiment in education, a stepping stone, an anti school? We are trying to figure out and still discovering after over a decade.....Adharshila is a place to experiment with your ideas in education.