The Peoples' Institute for Re-thinking Education and Development

The Parrot's Training (retold)

We are pleased to announce the release of the first book in the Hacking the Education System series. This book looks at the education system as a cage. It raises fundamental questions on how to begin decolonizing our imagination.

You can order the hard copy at Banyan Tree Bookstore in Indore.

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Alivelihoods vs. Deadlihoods

We have interacted with thousands of youth and have found the most common and important question asked by young people in their education today has nothing to do with the syllabus or with what is h

This revolution will not be schooled: How we are collectively improvising a 'new story' about learning

Around the world, in puddles of silent reclamation, young people, communities and inspired collectives are co-enacting a radically different narrative about education and development

Exposing the Illusion of the Campaign for Fundamental Right to Education

Is the Right to Education a blessing or a curse? This pamphlet seeks to open a debate on the Right to Education Campaign.

If not schooling, then what? Learning Parks of Possibilities

Learning Parks was one of the first experiments co-created by Shikshantar in Udaipur in the year 2000

10 Lies My School Taught Me

What lies have you been taught by your school? How have you been trying to unlearn them?

Seven Deadly Sins of Schooling

Factory-schooling is guilty of its own deadly sins. It is important for those working in the field of education to understand the serious damage that factory-schooling does to our children and to our wider species.

The Parrot's Training (retold)

Ideological or Dialogical

Diploma Disease and Collapse

Child-led Learning

The Real Purpose of School is Self-Hate

A MASTI YOGI'S PRAYER FOR OUR TIMES