Cultivating Saplings into Orchards
Sunitha Peter (Vice Principal, Ankur) How Nurturing Environments Catalyze Educational Equity: A Case Study on the Transforming Impact of the Ankur Program In a nation of over 300 million children, talent is distributed evenly, but opportunity is not. When children from highly deprived backgrounds enter the educational ecosystem alongside those from privileged spheres, the […]
A quiet social revolution
Suparna Chattarji (Ex-Principal, Ankur) The girls of Grades IX-XII assembled in the large space that was previously used as the self-study room for girls in Ankur hostel. Almost all of them knew me, therefore we started to talk without an introduction. I had a mission, however. I wanted to know how they felt in Ankur […]
Reigniting the Love for Reading
Suparna Chattarji (Ex-Principal, Ankur) On the first day of my job at Ankur, a comprehensive residential education programme, I was taken around the campus by a staff member. It was then that I first came across this large, whitewashed room—the children’s library. It was a quiet afternoon and the slanting sunlight drenched it with light […]
