The annual Tata Consultancy Services-EducationWorld Teachers Awards 2009 attracted 5,000 nominations from primary and secondary school teachers countrywide. Eight innovative teachers with extraordinary achievements were felicitated and celebrated in Ahmedabad on November 6

In India’s most populous (166 million) and socio-economically backward heartland state, institutions of education are perpetually under siege. Yet despite routine lawlessness and rise of politically protected crime syndicates, a small minority of higher education institutions have been able to maintain high academic and research standards

Once dry-as-dust backroom statisticians have suddenly transformed into glamorous data analysts, discerning meaningful patterns and insights from ever-increasing troves of data

Dr. Neeraj Kaushal is associate professor of social work at Columbia University, USA

A decade-long secessionist war in the Aceh region had led to tens of thousands of deaths and many more forcibly displaced from their homes. Aceh had also suffered a toll of some 80,000 in the deadly tsunami of 2004. Yoginder Sikand recounts his passage to the northern apogee of Sumatra