by Manish Jain and Kalashree Sengupta We have interacted with thousands of youth and have found the most common and important question asked by young people in their education today has nothing to do with the syllabus or with what is happening in the world. It is related to, “What…

The Learning Societies Un-Conference is an intergenerational gathering which brings together leading “thinker-doers” from around South Asia who are active in challenging the monopoly of factory-schooling and monoculture, and nurturing diverse learning communities, vernacular traditions, intercultural dialogues, ecological sustainable living, decolonization and swaraj. In Sardarshahr, Rajasthan again in 2023, there…

by Urmila Samson This year marks my sixtieth journey around the sun, travelling on what Carl Sagan famously referred to as the Pale Blue Dot. A great vantage point to look back on the life I lived and wonder who this person was who lived it. In the beginning there…

By Fatema C <fatema@sambhaavnaa.org> Shri Pankaj Pushkar, is an Indian political leader and deschooled ex-MLA. He represented the Timarpur constituency of Delhi during the period of 2015–2020. He has been an explorer of Gandhian Buniyadi Taleem along with being an educator of Political Science for the past 16 years. …

by Natasha Badhwar ‘To trust children, we must first learn to trust ourselves’ One of the best times for a young family is when the children are in some sort of trouble. …

by Sahar Beg, unschooling self-learner Ever since I stopped going to school in March, I’ve been crying a lot. In the beginning, it freaked me out a bit, how small things would make me so emotional. Only recently have I started to get an inkling as to why. School forced me to put parts of…

by Oormi Kapadia “Travel is the best teacher.” — a cliché, but something that has stayed with me over the years while I have forgotten most of my other childhood teachings. In 2017, my husband Marzban and I decided to leave our Mumbai urban life of consumption and competition behind…

by Manish Jain All over the world, from governments to media houses to corporates to NGOs to UN agencies, schooling and modern education is being sold as the panacea to all social, health, economic and environmental woes. Those who are not convinced and not willing to ‘buy’ these propagandistic claims…

By Fatema C “Finding your own harmony is important. Once you find your own harmony, you won’t harm any.” Diken Patel is the co-founder of Jail University and a volunteer at Gandhi ashram. …