Two monthly magazines, Chunmun and Udaan, are now being published by the Bihar Education Project Council (BEPC) under the Department of Education, Government of Bihar. These magazines are being distributed to government schools across Bihar, including several schools in Darbhanga, where our team works. Chunmun Magazine The Chunmun magazine is […]

Among humanity’s greatest discoveries, language and writing stand out as particularly significant. Scripts serve as the primary medium through which we express language, share thoughts, and record experiences in written form. Since the invention of writing, countless scripts have emerged and faded from use. Some scripts have been completely lost […]

And can Nature Education, in turn, enrich libraries? An important starting point to answer these questions could be to reflect on what one understands by and the approach one adopts to libraries and nature education. At Aripana, we see libraries as more than just a collection of age appropriate, child […]

When  Anjali was interviewed as a potential Aripana Education Fellow, what struck us was not just her commendable performance in the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) in which she excelled with very little guidance and on the basis of largely self driven efforts, but also her intuitive understanding of what […]

The title is a line from a Maithili poem that became very popular on social media sometime last year, loosely translating into, “I am the edible greens of Mithila, as glorious as the Paag (turban) of Mithilawasis”. Classroom engagement with teachers and students, participating in the teaching-learning process is a […]

The moth flutters and swirls, goes round and round, but does it make a sound? For it knows you are asleep. So when you see a drowsy moth, What should you do? Let it snore away. Inspired by a poem by David L. Harrison The country celebrated National Moth Week […]

The first part of the title of this blog, are words from a popular toddler’s / children’s song. It encourages children to focus on the emotion of happiness, associating it with simple activities like clapping, jumping, hopping, swirling etc. Example: If you are happy and you know it clap your […]