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Thoughts on Education

  • D.I.D in print and broadcast media

    Grade 4 students of Mahatma Gandhi International School (MGIS) have created a group named Detective Investigation Department (DID). Their initiative and resourcefulness created ripples within the school and outside of it. A student of Grade 9 scripted a film on them titled ‘Disappearance’. Ahmedabad Mirror reported their activities on the front page (click on this …

  • Union Minister HRD lauds MGIS in inaugural speech

    Hon. Shri. Kapil Sibal, Union Minister HRD spoke about our school in his inaugural speech at the Indo-US Summit on Higher Education in Mumbai this 31 July 2010. He said that- Here is Pascal Chazot and his wife, with us. They dared to think differently in education, which is the need of the hour. Pascal …

  • Bowing to protocol, an article by Pascal Chazot

    Ten years ago, Carla displayed grace and ease, seated on the floor of her French musician boyfriend’s house. “In India, she was stiff and distant. Protocol does strange things to people” The hall at the French Embassy in New Delhi was fuller than I have ever seen. The get-together was for the French community in …

  • Kill the stereotypes, an article by Anjou Musafir

    Kill the Stereotypes “Stereotypical images and their effect on little minds are often the reason for their unreasonable behaviour” Mama, why is it that Princesses are always shown as trapped and it is the Prince who rescues them?” asked my 9-year-old daughter. She then continued, “Why can’t a Princess rescue a Prince?” Having had a …