A tale of courage: Madhav Sharan’s tryst with brain injury and a score of 93% in CBSE exam

NEW DELHI: Madhav Sharan was no different from other students from his age till August 2021. What made him different was a life changing and deplorable event after his CBSE Class 10 Board exam that year. This student from Amity International School in Pushp Vihar, Delhi, experienced a brain haemorrhage in August 2021, a devastating … Read more

Find your purpose, students told

THE key to learning a tough life lesson like resilience is to know your purpose, says Vice Chancellors’ Council for Private Universities chairman Prof Mushtak Al-Atabi. “If you attempt something and fail, without understanding your purpose, you will most likely quit. But if you know your why – your purpose – you are more likely … Read more

Forget Growth. Optimize for Resilience

Fleming believed that growth has natural limits. Things grow to maturity—kids into adults, saplings into trees, startups into full-fledged companies—but growth beyond that point is, in his words, a “pathology” and an “affliction.” The bigger and more productive an economy gets, he argued, the more resources it needs to burn to maintain its own infrastructure. … Read more