India’s school curriculum now requires coding lessons starting in grade 6. The Central Board of Secondary Education built that syllabus for classes 6 to 8 in partnership with Microsoft, and a related computational thinking and AI curriculum is rolling out...
Ask a shop owner if business has changed and you get a fast answer. Ask a trade association if its agenda has changed and you get a much slower one. That gap between individual reaction speed and institutional reaction speed is the real story wherever a new employer...
A laptop that runs a browser and a spreadsheet all day needs very different repair work than one running a code editor, a compiler, and two or three virtual machines at once. That difference, not just “more people have laptops now,” is the real story...
In 2018, migrant households in Malappuram district received about 20.6 percent of all the remittance money that came into Kerala, more than any other district in the state, according to the Kerala Migration Survey run by the Centre for Development Studies. That single...
Do a town’s temples and mosques change when its job market changes? Across South India, the answer has often been yes, and usually for reasons that have nothing to do with faith. The changes tend to be about spreadsheets, WhatsApp groups, and QR codes. This...
In April 2024, India’s insurance regulator cut the standard waiting period for pre-existing conditions on individual health policies from four years to three. That change still left individual buyers waiting years for full coverage. Group health plans, the kind...
