For 170 years, Bishop Caldwell’s 1856 etymology of Drāviḍa — Tamiḻ → Damiḷa → Drāviḍa — has been treated as settled. It isn’t. A Sanskrit-internal reading, Tri-vidā (knowers of the three), anchored in Sage Agastya, the Sanskrit-speaking Vedic rishi who carried letters southward, fits the civilisational reality far more closely.
A century ago, AIU was founded on a quiet faith — that the universities of Bharat, working together, could shape the destiny of a nation not yet free. At its 100th AGM in Pune, that faith met a sharper question: can the Indian university redesign itself fast enough for Viksit Bharat 2047?
A satirical piece in a leading national newspaper recently mocked India’s LPG dependency as diplomatic dead weight. What it overlooked: scientists at CSIR-NCL Pune have spent two decades quietly building a clean, indigenous alternative — Dimethyl Ether — storable in existing LPG cylinders, burning cleaner, and capable of saving India ₹9,500 crore annually in foreign exchange. That is one story. Behind it sits a decade of evidence: India ranked 3rd globally in research output, $279 billion in digital payments in a single month, and a G20 presidency that delivered 87 documented outcomes. The data responds where rhetoric cannot. Read on.
One in seven young Indians carries a diagnosable mental health condition. Twelve billion work days are lost globally every year to mental health issues. And the single most important question in Indian education — are our students okay, as human beings? — has never once been asked in a board meeting.
Until now.
A psychiatrist, a university builder and a war veteran sat down to talk about what we have been measuring, what we have been ignoring, and what it would actually cost to change. The answers were uncomfortable, evidence-based and, in places, quietly devastating.
Read on.
Anthropic’s CEO says 50% of white-collar entry jobs vanish within 5 years. His survival advice? Focus on human-centred skills — empathy, adaptability, critical thinking.That’s literally what the IACT framework measures. 75% of your professional value isn’t technical. Most people have never had it mapped.Do you know your 75%?
Coursera Job Skills Report 2026 The Skills Reshaping Work Data from 6 million enterprise learners across ~7,000 organizations reveals how…
NAAC Reform Analysis · 2025 From Seven Criteria to Ten Attributes India’s higher education quality assurance undergoes its most sweeping…
“We bought the AI. Where’s the value?” At CATALYST AI Genomics Forum 2025, Prof. M M Ananth addressed the elephant in the room—why expensive AI tools sit underutilized in genomics labs worldwide. His diagnosis: four human bottlenecks in education, ethics, collaboration, and sustainability. Live audience polling reinforced his thesis, with 40.7% admitting they lack formal AI governance documentation and 43.75% prioritizing team AI literacy assessment as their immediate next step.
About a year ago, I had the privilege of participating in the panel discussion titled “Crafting Tomorrow’s Leaders: Developing Future-Ready…
Ancient India mapped the full arc of teaching long before modern pedagogy — six roles, from the Adhyapak who provides information to the Guru who awakens potential. As India reimagines education under NEP 2020, this timeless framework offers every educator a mirror, a path, and a purpose.
