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On most mornings, the first sound at Vidyakshetra is not the shrill ring of a bell. It is the soft notes of a flute. Somewhere under the neem trees, a student practises a raag (melodic framework). A few steps away, another child tightens yarn onto a loom. Two boys sweep the entrance before heading to the open kitchen where breakfast simmers. In a corner of the courtyard, a girl folds her hands and recites a shloka (verse) from memory. Morning music practice on the tabla fills the campus with […]

Every spring, as snow melts off the high-altitude pastures of Kashmir, the Gujjar and Bakarwal nomadic communities begin their annual migration. They trek for days into the meadows with their livestock — far from roads, markets, and schools. A classroom amid the clouds Until recently, this seasonal journey meant children had to pause their education for months. But today, tent schools set up deep in these mountain trails are bridging that gap. Launched in 2003 through a collaboration between […]

Every morning in the small village of Katailpura, Rajasthan, when the rising sun catches the golden dust on the narrow lanes, Darshna Chaudhary, a 42-year-old government school teacher, walks to her classroom.  It is a walk she has made for nearly a decade, five kilometres from Basedi to the Government Upper Primary School where she teaches children from Classes 1 to 8. “When I first came here, there was no proper road. It was raining heavily, and the streets were filled with mud. I had to […]

When Sangeeta Maurya first received her posting in a small village school in UP’s Raebareli district, she broke down in tears. Having cleared the challenging University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test (UGC NET), she had imagined herself in a well-equipped classroom, filled with eager students.    Instead, she found herself standing inside a crumbling building with broken benches, absent children, and silence that stretched down the dusty corridors.   She wondered if this was […]