ParikrmaFights COVID-19 crisis These are extraordinary times and it calls for extraordinary people and extraordinary measures. Parikrma has tried to rise up to this challenge for one reason only. We care. We care about our children and what is happening around us. The terrible inequity in opportunities that exists in society has always troubled us and for that very reason Parikrma was created in 2003.…
#parikrmafightscovid19 One Tablet can educate three kids from underserved families This pandemic has impacted many a hundred industries and fields drastically… and education is one such. Now, with schools being shut, many big schools have started online classes. But, what about children from poor families and those from the slums? Many have little or no access to smartphones. Does that mean their lives will remain…
Previous Next I had to do what i got to do I have never been so conscious of my age as I am right now. I have always celebrated my number of years as a rich experience and the growing desire to think of others before myself. I have taken care of myself and have been generally healthy. Today this deadly Covid 19 constantly reminds…
Shukla Bose and Anuradha represented Parikrma and presented a research paper on the Parikrma Model at one of the world’s largest education conference, EDUlearn 18 in Mallorca. “We attended the 10th Annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies held at Palma de Mallorca, Spain on the 2nd to 4th of July 2018. We had written a paper called Overcoming Barriers to Learning the Parikrma…
Our student Chaithra is written about in the local newspaper as a new discovery in the film world. She will be sharing screen space with the eminent artist Ravinchandran. We take credit in discovering her acting talent when she was 10 years old at school and got her to act in all our school plays. She then graduated and did her engineering in Biotechnology with First…
Kruthi and Senora, the daughters of a plumber and a carpenter, respectively, were selected as Ashoka India Changemakers for educating 25 kids of migrant labourers in Kodigenahalli. More from the excerpts from the Ashoka website, “while the norm is to focus on academics, these teenagers are looking beyond their textbooks. From innovating a solar-powered incinerator for dealing with menstrual waste to teaching girls to code,…
Sixteen teams – 1 international and 3 out-of-state schools, 3 days of good football, loads of singing and dancing and art… All this and more at the Parikrma Champions League 2018. This year the Equality Cup went to Inventure Academy and the Runner-up Cup to St Xavier’s from Belgaum. Vidyaniketan School bagged the third position. We would like to thank the chief guests: Kushal Das,…
Two teams comprising of 6 first-year students each of Parikrma Junior College participated in the Inventure Changemaker Challenge 2018, conducted by Inventure Academy, to recognize and provide funding to the best teams of young people who come up with sustainable ideas to make noticeable changes in the society. It started with entering online applications with 48 other teams, followed by getting selected in the top…
We are super thrilled to inform you that two of our schools, the Nandini Layout and Koramangala Centres just won the International School Awards – by British Council accredited for the period of 2018 – 21. The British Council International School Award (ISA) is a benchmarking scheme that accredits schools as having an outstanding level of support for nurturing global citizenship in young people and…
Nervous new students and proud parents sit in rows and are welcomed by the inspirational dean. We are at a world-class university, with a strong reputation and great outcomes for alumni. A final polite request was given to parents: please avoid WhatsApping your children – and emailing professors – during classes. Give students their independence and trust the faculty. Our student’s mother was not in…
