Renuka Bisht As CEO of Penguin Random House, Markus Dohle leads its operations in 20 countries and sales in over 100. In an email interaction he addresses trends in the book industry, proliferation of literature festivals in India, the role of book stores and ... More »
Renuka Bisht As India grows richer will Indian women gain equality? A key finding in the Economic Survey 2017-18 is that gender indicators are more responsive to wealth in India than they are in the typical country. For example, for education the effect of wea... More »
Renuka Bisht The twelfth Annual Status of Education Report (Aser 2017: Beyond Basics) focuses on 14-18 years old across rural India, and finds disturbing shortfalls in their ability to do even simple tasks like counting money and telling time. Suman Bhattachar... More »
Renuka Bisht The twelfth Annual Status of Education Report (Aser 2017: Beyond Basics) focuses on 14-18 year olds across rural India, and finds disturbing shortfalls in their ability to do even simple tasks like counting money and telling time. Suman Bhattachar... More »
Renuka Bisht On hearing the argument that all the hostility, threats, violence against Padmaavat have not hurt but helped the cause of Padmaavat’s producers, I am strongly reminded of a 2010 conversation between Rajeev Masand and Aamir Khan. Masand asked: “We ... More »
Renuka Bisht With the Padmaavat release days away, even as uncertainty remains about whether hooligans and some state forces will still gang up to deny the film a free run, some commentators are underlining that all the hostility has not hurt but helped the ca... More »
Renuka Bisht The Annual Status of Education Report 2017 covers youth aged 14-18 years all across rural India. On the upside it finds that the urban-rural gap is rapidly disappearing when it comes to 18 year olds… via TOI Blog More »
Renuka Bisht A good education is supposed to open a window of opportunities even for the most disadvantaged youth. But today this thesis is being impaired by double trouble. On the one hand the creation of formal sector jobs just hasn’t kept pace with the tide... More »
Renuka Bisht One clear and happy consequence of the Right to Education Act (RTE) has been how the school enrollment of girls has risen to match that of the boys, so that 11 successive ASER reports have shown enrollment rates for the 7-10 age group as being wel... More »
Renuka Bisht One American TV anchor referred to it as “a bad word that ends in a hole”. When the story broke that President Donald Trump in an immigration policy discussion had allegedly said “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come her... More »
Renuka Bisht A lot of children have to parent their parents these days. Do they do this with a strict or a liberal spirit? Some children spend a lot of time chastising: eat your medicine, don’t eat halwa, do the exercises, stop hogging the telly… and so on. If... More »
Renuka Bisht Asking for change is one thing, undergoing change another. One is easy while the other can be hard and disconcerting. It feels harder still when one’s sense of choice is taken away. Like the people who want government to get more serious about cli... More »