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Business News > Mint Authors > Anurag Behar

Anurag Behar

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ARTICLES BY ANURAG BEHAR

The way forward begins with seeing things as they are, not as we wish them to be. (Pixabay)

The best don’t always rise to the top but merit isn’t a lost cause

4 min read . 16 Apr 2025

It is undeniable that we have an underlying national educational consensus now. (Mint)

India’s consensus on school education makes space for optimism

4 min read . 02 Apr 2025

We must foster multilingualism.

Three-language formula: Chhattisgarh offers an education case study

4 min read . 05 Mar 2025

Our imagination of education is now almost universally of something that happens in institutional settings.

India’s education system must adapt better to the real world out there

4 min read . 19 Feb 2025

Few fields of work have the extreme complexity of education.

Teaching children isn’t easy: It takes a lot more than most of us realize

4 min read . 05 Feb 2025

School systems can still focus on ensuring that schools prioritize the recovery of lost learning for each child. (Hindustan Times)

The silent crisis: Pandemic learning losses that could haunt a generation

4 min read . 22 Jan 2025

Let's not take ourselves too seriously. As the great Sahir said: “I am but a poet of a few moments,”

Resolve to let clarity prevail over nonsense: Here’s a handy guide

4 min read . 08 Jan 2025

Outcome shapers would all do everybody a good turn if they cleaved closer to ground realities.

Reality check: Too many outcome shapers seem to be in need of one

4 min read . 23 Dec 2024

The deficits and deprivations that children live with affects their educational achievement profoundly.

India should give its school education system a radical rejig

4 min read . 08 Dec 2024

Some pioneers of AI are concerned about ensuring that super human AI is aligned with human well-being.

Superhuman AI may be the next Pied Piper of Hamelin for our kids

4 min read . 10 Nov 2024

For navigating life in today’s world, the basic literacy and numeracy abilities are inadequate but critical for further education and learning.

Basic literacy and numeracy: Why it’s proving so elusive in India

4 min read . 23 Oct 2024

We are mostly oblivious to injustice, often complicit, and sometimes satisfied by anodyne protests against it.

Battered women have only activists to rely on when the law goes missing

4 min read . 10 Oct 2024

Most of these places have high population density, and little land and other natural resources per capita.

India has four types of poverty. One of them perpetuates the other three.

4 min read . 25 Sep 2024

An example of fakeness is a claim like “we work in 10,000 schools” when all they have done is distributed some books in those 10,000 schools.

How to tell fake NGOs apart from actual do-gooders? Here’s a guide.

4 min read . 28 Aug 2024

While citing larger numbers of a simply graspable geographical or institutional unit is impressive, this doesn't hint if the coverage is adequate.

Don’t push NGOs to scale up the way businesses do

4 min read . 14 Aug 2024

Demanding quick changes, and that too those that are definitive and clear, leads NGOs down a slippery slope of flakiness and fakeness.

Fake-and-flaky alert: NGO funders should note social change isn’t T20 cricket

4 min read . 31 Jul 2024

The National Curriculum Framework for School Education 2023 places a special emphasis on school culture and the relationships and teamwork among teachers.

A school's culture matters more for its success than we think

4 min read . 17 Jul 2024

Most have no documents to access India’s public health schemes.

Ultra-slum dwellers must be given access to welfare provisions

4 min read . 03 Jul 2024

It would be much better to use assessment methods that can assess many more capacities and in greater depth.

Rethink competitive exams: Evaluate a broader set of student capabilities

4 min read . 19 Jun 2024

For many workers, it’s a full family enterprise with their children working side-by-side.

Spare a thought for people who live amid heaps of urban garbage

4 min read . 22 May 2024