If you’ve come across the term “DEAR time” while researching schools and aren’t sure what it actually means, you’re not alone. It’s not a marketing phrase. DEAR stands for Drop Everything And Read, and it’s a specific classroom practice where, at a set point in the school day, students and often teachers stop whatever else they’re doing and read silently for a fixed stretch of time. No assignment attached, no comprehension quiz waiting at the end. Just reading, for the…

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Ask parents what they hope their child becomes, and somewhere in that answer you’ll usually find two things sitting side by side. They want a child who can hold their own anywhere in the world. And they want a child who never forgets where they come from. These two goals are often treated as opposites, as if raising a “global” child means diluting the Indian part, or as if staying rooted in Indian values means shutting the rest of the…

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