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20/09/2026

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Seema Kumari is from Dahu, a small village in Ormanjhi, Jharkhand. Her parents never received any formal education. They rely on farming, and her father also works at a local thread factory.

In 2012, young Seema saw a group of girls playing football in her village. The very next day, she asked to join too and that decision changed her life. She joined YUWA, an organisation that supports girls from poor families in rural Jharkhand through education and football.

She walked long distances, often barefoot, just to reach school. She worked as a football coach to pay her own school fees. She fought against child marriage and never gave up on her dream of studying further.

In 2021, Seema achieved the impossible. She was accepted into Harvard University on a full scholarship. She also received offers from Ashoka University, Middlebury College, and Trinity College.

She became the first person in her family to attend university. When she told her parents about Harvard, they had no idea where it was. "My parents don't know where Harvard is," Seema said, "but they know I studied hard."

From walking barefoot to school in Jharkhand to Harvard University. Seema Kumari proved that no background is too small for a big dream. 📚

18/09/2026

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18/09/2026

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What if going back to books could help children read, write and focus better?

Sweden is changing the way children learn in school, with a stronger focus on physical textbooks, handwriting, paper exercises and reading instead of relying heavily on screens.

The government has invested more than 1.1 billion Swedish kronor, over €100 million, from 2023 through 2026 to help ensure students have printed textbooks for core subjects. The move comes as Sweden responds to concerns about falling reading comprehension among children and the effects of heavy digital use in classrooms.

Teachers and researchers have also raised concerns about young children spending too much time with tablets and digital tools. They point to areas such as deep reading, memory, attention and fine motor skills, which are important during the early years of learning.

Sweden has also moved away from previous plans for fully digital national assessments in the early grades and has placed greater emphasis on paper-based learning and handwriting practice.

But this is not a complete technology ban. Sweden is taking a more balanced approach, limiting digital tools for younger children while continuing to introduce computers and digital research tools as students get older.

The change has attracted attention beyond Sweden, with educators and policymakers in other countries watching the experiment closely.

For many parents and teachers, it raises an interesting question: in a world filled with screens, could sometimes putting the tablet away help children learn in a deeper way?

17/09/2026

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She couldn’t find the right school for her autistic son. So, instead of accepting that there was nowhere for him to go, Dr Ratnabali Ray Sengupta built one. In 2004, after travelling to Kolkata in search of the right education and training for her son, she was advised to establish a school in Agar...

11/09/2026

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His school once held back his results because his mother couldn’t pay the fees. Today, he works at NASA.

Jaykumar Vaidya grew up in an 8×10-ft room in Mumbai’s Kurla slum, where even a simple meal could be a struggle.

His mother did odd jobs to keep them going.
He repaired TVs for ₹4,000 a month.
He taught students to fund his education.

But poverty never convinced him to think small.

Jaykumar went on to study electrical engineering, win 3 national and 4 state-level robotics awards, and work as a researcher at TIFR.

His research eventually took him to the University of Virginia and then to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

Today, he works on scientific instruments that help researchers study Mars, the Moon and Earth’s upper atmosphere.



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09/08/2026

From Tamil Nadu to the Ivy League: 17-year-old wins Rs 3.55 crore scholarship to Brown University - India Today

Pranav Ilango, 17, from Erode, Tamil Nadu, is set to study at Brown University in the US after securing a full scholarship worth Rs 3.55 crore. The scholarship covers his tuition and living expenses throughout his four-year undergraduate programme at the prestigious Ivy League university.

31/07/2026

From the son of a rickshaw driver to becoming one of India’s youngest IAS officers—his story proves that dreams don’t have a price tag.

“I studied 13 hours every day because failure wasn’t an option.”

At just 21, Ansar Shaikh cleared the UPSC Civil Services Examination on his very first attempt despite growing up in extreme financial hardship.

22/07/2026

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