Instead of reaching the sky, Aakash ends up six feet below

The Wire July 15, 2015 Once at the centre of the Indian government’s half-baked schemes to make classrooms tech-savvy, the Aakash project wound down quietly in March 2015, an RTI has revealed. The project envisaged lakhs of school and engineering students armed with a tablet each, sold at Rs.1,130 courtesy the government, from which they …

Reaching for the… sky?

This article, as written by me, appeared in The Hindu on December 4, 2012. — The Aakash initiative of the Indian government is an attempt to bolster the academic experience of students in the country by equipping them with purpose-built tablets at subsidised rates. The Aakash 2 tablet was unveiled on November 11, 2012. It …