Over the past few months, as I have stepped into a global education media leadership role with the BRICS Educational Film & Media Association, I have found myself in conversations across countries, systems and contexts. The dominant narrative everywhere is familiar. Artificial intelligence, digital platforms, scale, access and personalisation continue to shape the discourse. And yet, the most powerful learning moments I encounter are not digital. They are human. A student finding the courage...

For over two decades, education technology has promised to transform classrooms. But after the excitement of the pandemic years, schools are beginning to ask a more fundamental question: is technology actually improving learning, or simply adding another layer of complexity? Ed-tech has travelled an interesting journey over the last twenty years. From being an experimental idea to becoming a pandemic necessity, it has now entered a more mature phase. The excitement is settling, and schools...

For decades, we have defined success in education the same way we define it in business, through speed, scale, visibility and upward mobility. The faster you grow, the larger the institution you lead, the more visible your title, the more successful you are assumed to be. It is a linear model, it seems incomplete. In my own journey of building institutions, leading teams, and working closely with schools across India and beyond, most of my strongest collaborators have been women. In fact,...