Insights
Writing about AI, EdTech, and Indian education.
What we're learning from running NIGOC. What works, what doesn't, what's coming.
How AI is closing India's admission counselor gap
India has 100 million school-leavers and fewer than 50,000 trained counselors. The math doesn't work with humans. It does work with LLMs. Here's what we're seeing in our closed beta.
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NEP 2020 and the 4-year UG framework: what class 12 students need to know
The National Education Policy 2020 reframed undergraduate education in India — multiple entry/exit, multidisciplinary curriculum, ABC credit transfer. Here's the practical version for students choosing colleges in 2026.
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The 8,400 scholarships Indian students don't know about (yet)
We indexed every active scholarship for Indian students across Central, state and private sources. Here's what we found, and why so much of it is invisible.
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From Baleswar to Bengaluru: building NIGOC from a tier-3 town
Niranjan on returning home from Bengaluru to start an AI EdTech company in Odisha. The advantages and disadvantages of incorporating in a town the venture-capital industry has never visited.
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