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. …

by Binal Joshi, Mumbai Part 1: Before I was already….until From outside I was already holding the flame of curiosity innately until the water of authority doused the fire. I was already wild and creative until the cage of culture and traditions tamed me through conformity. I was already humming…

by Nikita Palresa, Pune I am Raising an Ordinary Child… Someone who knows that sometimes you have to wait for our turn…in the queue… for a dessert… for not everything is available right here, right now. In the waiting, we have learnt to savour. Someone who may not be aware…

You are super special AND you are not. What you achieve in life is important AND it doesn’t really matter. You will have lots of choices in your life AND you really don’t. You are your socio-political identity AND you are more than that. You have inherited trauma AND you…