Recently I attended a panel discussion at my son’s school on students’ wellbeing and the most hotly discussed topic there was the overuse of computers,

I have started a video series in Hindi on technologies and trends that have the potential to disrupt life in the 21st century. I have

In the early 20th century, for a city dweller in India, definition of a nice life usually meant, “He got a government job, and lived

As a kid, I enjoyed reading stories from the Indian lore. If I were to narrate the same stories to kids living in metropolitan cities

I find tinkering activities if designed well, are a great way to learn some essential life skills. Not just Timeless Lifeskills but also skills that

Millions of years back the only driver of change and adaptation was evolution or the gene. Then around 70,000 years back, Homo Sapiens evolved to

I have been conducting workshops at rural schools in India for the last 5 years. 85 teachers and students are in regular touch with me

After Hiteshi, in the Indian Himalayas I also visited Jeevashala in village Maram, Government Junior High School in village Chanoli and Aarohi Bal Sansaar in

At Dyaunai, a village around 15 k.m. from Kausani in the Himalayas, I stayed overnight with my host Kishan Rana, who, along with his wife,

In March and April 2016 I was in India for three weeks conducting life skills workshops in the Himalayas. I started with a two-day workshop

Tinkering is learning by playing. Tinkering fuels the imagination and catalyses creativity – both essential life skills for the 21st century.  So for my forthcoming

Formal education tends to behave like a GPS giving learners step-by-step instructions for a well-defined world. This GPS approach worked well in the 19th and

In my forthcoming workshops in April, I plan to build on the theme of ‘Tinkering with Electronics’ that I had started last December and introduce

Thinking of a title of your life story can be a good exercise in catharsis. You can not only look back and think of appropriate

In their annual letter, this year Bill and Melinda Gates write about energy and time. Among other things they describe the importance of opportunity cost

Couple of days back I met a 15 year old. He mentioned that this summer holidays, after his GCSE examinations, he would like to do

 If you are of a certain age you may have learnt your English alphabet reciting – A for Apple, B for Boy, C for Cat…

Have you heard the joke – my heart was a scalar, till it found you. Now it’s a vector. ‘Being in your element’ is like