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12/09/2026

Eight Intelligences, One Report Card: The Flawed Machinery of Academic Merit

Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences challenges the obsession with grades, while growing evidence shows how academic pressure, narrow definitions of merit and social expectations can seriously affect students’ mental health

Why do grades fail students? How academic pressure, narrow definitions of merit and India’s education system affect student mental health

11/09/2026

From the Moon to the Manhole: Can India’s Tech Revolution Finally Dignify Its Sewers?

CSIR-CMERI is developing mechanised sewer and septic-tank cleaning solutions to reduce human entry into hazardous work. The technology offers hope to workers still exposed to toxic gases, disease and deadly accidents

CSIR-CMERI’s mechanised sewer-cleaning technology could help end manual scavenging in India, protect sanitation workers and restore dignity to hazardous work

11/09/2026

From the Moon to the Manhole: Can India’s Tech Revolution Finally Dignify Its Sewers?

CSIR-CMERI is developing mechanised sewer and septic-tank cleaning solutions to reduce human entry into hazardous work. The technology offers hope to workers still exposed to toxic gases, disease and deadly accidents

CSIR-CMERI’s mechanised sewer-cleaning technology could help end manual scavenging in India, protect sanitation workers and restore dignity to hazardous work

09/09/2026

Across Time Zones and Election Trails: The Sudivya Sonu I Knew

He once asked me to write Shibu Soren’s story. Years later, after his own death, I found myself writing a different story—the story of our friendship

Remembering Sudivya Sonu beyond politics: a journalist, voter and friend reflects on two decades of conversations, elections and an enduring bond

08/09/2026

वक्त बदला, शहर बदले, रिश्ता नहीं

गिरिडीह से चीन तक, पत्रकारिता से राजनीति तक—दो दशक में शहर और भूमिकाएं बदलती रहीं, लेकिन सुदिव्य सोनू के साथ मेरा रिश्ता बना रहा

सुदिव्य सोनू और मेरी दो दशक पुरानी दोस्ती की कहानी, जिसमें राजनीति, पत्रकारिता, भरोसा, दूरी और उन अनकहे रिश्तों की य...

07/09/2026

Low Honorariums, High Responsibilities: The Struggle of Bengal’s Unaided Madrasa Teachers

With honorariums as low as Rs 4,000, women educators and teachers with physical disabilities continue teaching in Bengal’s unaided madrasas while seeking government support amid financial and family struggles

Bengal’s unaided madrasah teachers seek govt support over low honorariums, financial hardship and the challenges of sustaining their families

07/09/2026

Show Your Aadhaar. Prove You’re Indian: A Bengali Hawker’s Ordeal in Odisha

He crossed a state border to earn, not to prove his citizenship. Mustakim’s alleged ordeal raises a larger question about who gets to question an Indian’s identity

Bengal hawker Mustakim Sheikh was allegedly harassed in Odisha and called ‘Bangladeshi’, raising concerns over migrant workers facing identity-based abuse

07/09/2026

न कोई राजनीतिक विरासत, न आसान जीत: ऐसे JMM के ‘चाणक्य’ बने सुदिव्या सोनू

राजनीतिक विरासत के बिना शुरू हुआ सफर JMM में तीन दशक की निष्ठा, चुनावी संघर्ष और रणनीतिक भूमिका के जरिए सत्ता के केंद्र तक पहुंचा

सुदिव्या कुमार सोनू की राजनीतिक यात्रा CCL की ठेकेदारी से शुरू होकर JMM में संघर्ष, हेमंत सोरेन के भरोसे और मंत्री पद त....

06/09/2026

From Guruji’s ‘Son’ to Hemant’s ‘Bhaiya’: The Political Journey of Sudivya Sonu

He started with 8,272 votes and ended with 94,042, but Sudivya Kumar Sonu’s real political rise was built on decades of loyalty to JMM, his bond with Guruji and his strategic role beside Hemant Soren

Sudivya Sonu rose from a contractor to JMM’s Chanakya and minister, earning Shibu Soren’s trust and becoming Hemant Soren’s political shield

06/09/2026

Sudivya Kumar had made Giridih, the center of Jharkhand's politics- Vinod Kumar