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Evolving Education in India
We all looked forward to the two-month break between classes when we were kids. While we recognise the respite from deadlines, tests, and other obligations. It was the re-opening that both the children and parents look forward to. This is known as the ‘summer slide’ and it takes a pupil to continue and calibrate their…
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Crypto Currency: Future of Transaction?
Following all the media attention around Cryptocurrency, Yosee’s Divya Sornaraja (DSo) & Ankur Gupta(AG) started an email thread discussing whether cryptocurrency can go mainstream for future transactions or not and also, whether it had the potential in becoming a formal legal tender. Further, we got into the concept of CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) also…
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Homeschooling in India: Unschooling Jagani Sisters
In 2018-19, my sisters Kashish & Tanishk had to join additional classes apart from their daily school, entering 9th & 8th standard. They joined these extra classes not because they wanted to, but because their friends were taking them to score better marks and grades in exams. My sisters were not happy about that. Their…
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Why does India invest in Space?
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) budget for fiscal year of 2018 was around Rs. 10,000 crore which amounted to about 0.0004% of the 2018 Union Budget of India. To understand the broad reasons behind this investment, it is important to highlight the direct and indirect benefits of Space to the country. The reasons behind…
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The Bridge Project
Why does one want to solve problems in the society? Our mind is a river and these problems around us are like rocks which obstruct its flow. When the mind-river get obstructed, one cannot live in peace. Some rocks smaller, some bigger, some huge. This article is about one such huge rock that affected me…