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Against Joyful Learning

Joy in learning has been mistaken for ease, visibility, and constant affirmation. This essay argues that by removing struggle, waiting, and effort from classrooms, we have hollowed out the very conditions that make deep understanding and lasting joy possible.

Dr. Anurag Shukla

Culture And Policy

The Quiet Intelligence of Wood

A reflection on why slow, tactile practices like woodworking remain among the most serious forms of early education, shaping attention, judgment, and character in an age obsessed with speed, screens, and outcomes.

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Indian Knowledge Systems

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The Many Lives of Nautanki

From mill workers and mela grounds to cinema halls and everyday speech, a cultural history of nautanki and how a people’s theater slipped quietly out of public memory.

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Rain, Forests, and the Slow Art of Growing Up

A reflection on how Hayao Miyazaki’s films reveal what modern childhood across Japan, India, and the world has forgotten: the freedom to wonder without fear, hurry, or instruction.

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Social Commentary

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Inked in Time: The Living Histories of Indian Tattoos

To be tattooed in India was never to adorn the body, but to remember that the body itself is a scripture of belonging, pain, and continuity.

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Can India’s Liberal Arts Universities Think in Indian Languages?

India’s new liberal arts universities look modern and promising, but without the languages that shape students’ inner worlds, they cannot nurture genuine debate, original thought, or real intellectual freedom.

Dr. Anurag Shukla

Culture And Policy

The Global Childhood Factory: Inside the Quiet Takeover of the Early Years by Screens

In homes across continents, parents trade presence for pixels. What began as convenience is fast becoming the architecture of a new childhood.

Dr. Anurag Shukla

Cultural Commentary

The Pedagogy of Wonder

In rural Madhya Pradesh, a generation of teachers and children once turned science into a shared act of discovery. Their experiment endures as a quiet lesson on what education can still mean.

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The Wandering Mind: Rethinking Goals in an Age of Complexity

A reflection on Stanley and Lehman’s argument that novelty, not metrics, fuels creativity. The review considers how institutions might balance stability with serendipity.

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Dr. Anurag Shukla

Against Joyful Learning

The Quiet Intelligence of Wood

The Many Lives of Nautanki

Rain, Forests, and the Slow Art of Growing Up

Inked in Time: The Living Histories of Indian Tattoos

Can India’s Liberal Arts Universities Think in Indian Languages?

The Global Childhood Factory: Inside the Quiet Takeover of the Early Years by Screens

The Pedagogy of Wonder

The Wandering Mind: Rethinking Goals in an Age of Complexity