Pradeep was accompanied by his American friend, Taylor. Taylor is a PhD in mathematics. His area of concentration is functional analysis and topology. Is currently teaching at Arizona University in phoenix. One of the interesting courses that he takes is at the intersection of humanities and math. Taylor has taught high school for three years. … Read more

Dhruba Jyoti is an Arts graduate from Wadia College. He majored in Economics and Math. Went on to work as a journalist with the Times of India, covering sports. What got him into Bulls Eye was an article published in Pune Times. It had the 3 founders sitting on a metal staircase posing for a … Read more

Jul 1992. My first experience of living away from home. At the grand age of 23. I soon realised that my wingies are the new family. So here we were: Sanjay, Anshu, Vishy, Rahul, Uday, Deva, Venkat and Yours Truly,– the only occupants of the newly built 2nd Floor West Wing of New Hostel at … Read more

Sunil Godbole is a freelance Consultant who completed his PGDIE from NITIE back in 1992. He has vast experience in the Quality Control domain across organizations like Godrej Appliances, QC Services, Bilcare Ltd. and Suzlon. Sunil has been doing interesting work in the past few years. He is working to establish improvement management as a … Read more

Psychology is one subject that has always been of interest to me. My daughter had seriously been considering majoring in psychology for her under graduation. That is the time we were looking for advisors – and we were referred to Dr Natu – one of the most popular psychology teachers in Pune. One of the … Read more

Dravid High School was started in 1884 by the Deccan Education Society. In 1912, Mr Dravid gave a donation of 75,000 rupees and 40 tolas of gold. And the school was named after him. Before that it was called New English School, Wai. Being an old school, it is located right in the heart of … Read more

What does an atheist do when caught in a religious trap? Pray for release? When the suggestion came to attend a workshop in the salubrious climes of Lonavla – and that too at a MRP which seemed to be quite reasonable, the reaction was ‘What the hell? I can always take a furlough if it … Read more

Indians create 2 crore babies a year. All of them will end up in schools. But typically in grade 5, about 1 crore of these babies will drop out – to join the workforce. Even today 70% of our unskilled workforce is educated till grade 5. So the opportunity is in trying to give these … Read more

There are 12 ‘learning centres’ in Pune. Jidnyasa (http://jidnyasa.org/) is one of them. It’s an experimental school located at the base of a hill on the road that starts from Kinara Hotel on Paud Road. There are 85 students in the school. Students appear for the NIOS / IGCSE pattern in class 10. Timings are … Read more