Festival of Science 2022

Festival of Science: March 3-4-5 2022 Hundreds of students from schools across the country including government schools got an opportunity to understand one of the biggest crisis faced by humanity today: Climate Change   In the past year, the focus from the impacts of the pandemic shifted dramatically towards climate change and for all the right reasons. In the year 2021, natural disasters across the globe…

An educator’s quest for answers

An educator’s quest for answers If as educators, we are not perennially plagued with the question of what is the purpose of education, are we doing it right, will our students be ready for life, or can we do it better, then we are not serious educators at all? The eternal debate that educators face, is what should we prepare our students for, is it…

Teachers Need To Be Vaccinated

TEACHERS NEED TO BE VACCINATED IF WE WANT AN EDUCATED NATION AFTER COVID-19 Ever since I started to work in education, I have been hearing, and to a certain extent even experiencing, the growing apathy of teachers towards teaching. While the competence of private school teachers is dealt with privately, the shortcomings of the government school teachers have been a topic of public debate for…

PRANA on Wheels

ON WHEELS PRANA on Wheels We all faced an unprecedented crisis in the history of India. While Covid-19 created multiple challenges, lack of basic medical resources or timely administration of these resources continues to be one of the primary challenges for the underprivileged. We have endeavored to step up and reach out to those who have limited or no access to support. Parikrma Humanity Foundation…

Supporting our children and parents during the covid pandemic

Parikrma fights COVID-19

ParikrmaFights COVID-19 crisis The year 2020 took us all by surprise – no one was ready for what was to come. Everything came to a standstill – and education was just one of the collaterals. But our children are not regular children, their families don’t come from regular socio-economic backgrounds, and hence, the situation demanded swift and timely action, and solutions that were out of…

We have been ‘on’, but now we are back!

We have been ‘on’, but now we are back! On the 4th of January 2021, Parikrma Humanity Foundation re-opened its four schools and college after nearly nine months of being confined in homes because of Covid-19. While most other schools would have closed for summer anyway in April and May, for Parikrma, those two months would have been very critical to have kept open. This is…

Resilience, Prudence, Humility: Learning from the ‘Greatest Gen’

Resilience, Prudence, Humility: Learning from the ‘Greatest Gen’ The Greatest Generation lived through the greatest horrors of the 20th century, we must learn from them A statute of Mahatma Gandhi. Credit: DH Photo For many, it will not be easy to put behind the trauma of 2020. They would have lost their dear ones to Covid-19. As we welcome the new year with hope and…