Conversations shaping the future of Indian education.

Indian schools build great followers. Then call them leaders.

Indian schools build great followers. Then call them leaders.

India wants to build 50 world-class universities by 2047. He built one, with NO MONEY, NO RANKING AND NO DEADLINE.

The institution that taught India to build industry.

I sat down with Professor M.M. Sharma, the man who ran UDCT in Mumbai, the place that basically gave India its chemical industry. I walked in with my questions ready. I walked out re-thinking all of them.

Does your child want to come to school tomorrow?

Most school founders track board results, JEE numbers, trophies, and fee collection. Those things matter. But they are the result of something deeper.

The thing that drives all of them? A child who wakes up and actually wants to go to school. A child who feels safe, curious, and like themselves when they're there. That one feeling — hard to measure, easy to sense — predicts almost everything else.