Mohammad Asif Iqbal

Mohammad Asif is an Indian columnist and freelance journalist from New Delhi. He has extensively written on rural India, his notable interests are poverty, structural inequities, caste discrimination, and socio-economic as well as educational issue of Indian society

Exclusive Content

spot_img

Eight Intelligences, One Report Card: The Flawed Machinery of Academic Merit

Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligences theory challenges the obsession with grades, but India’s education system continues to reward a narrow definition of merit. As academic pressure grows, students face mounting expectations, anxiety and mental-health struggles, raising questions about how we define intelligence, success and failure

A Lost Generation? The Complex Realities Pushing 3 Million Adolescent Girls Out of School

India faces a deepening crisis as 6.5 million children, including 3 million girls, drop out. Structural gaps, poverty, and administrative hurdles now threaten the National Education Policy’s goal of universal enrolment.