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Monthly Archives: June 2019

Narendra Lanjewar

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Narendra Lanjewar is a librarian and journalist. He has a MA in Marathi Literature and a degree in journalism besides a Bachelor in Library Science. As a librarian he started 50 libraries for children in Buldana district, Amravati region of Maharashtra and designed and delivered several programmes for children to get them interested in reading and […]

Arvind Gupta

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Arvind Gupta is an Indian toy inventor and popularizer of science. He participated in the Hoshangabad Science Teaching Programme (HSTP) in Madhya Pradesh in 1978. While he was there he developed his idea of creating simple toys and educational experiments using locally available materials as well as items usually thrown as trash. These simple toys, he found, fascinated children and […]

Amrita Patwardhan

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Amrita Patwardhan heads the education portfolio of the Tata Trusts. She has been with the Trusts since 2003. Ms Patwardhan has masters in child development from MS University and MPhil in education from Delhi University. She was recipient of Edberg Foundation, Sweden’s fellowship in 2001 where she spent a year at the International Development Department of […]