A Hindi teacher at Kendriya Vidyalaya never thought his students would learn writing handwritten letters in this digital age but when they did he was overwhelmed with joy.

A teacher in Siktaur Primary School in Khorabar block, Gorakhpur district, cleared out a disused room and turned it into a colourful library that has become the favourite hangout for the school’s children.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui has been impressing us with his acting abilities ever since he made his debut, but these days netizens can't stop raving about Ganesh Gaitonde – the character he plays in Netflix series Sacred Games. Gaitonde is brutal, brash, abusive and cocky, but the real Nawaz is quite the opposite -- he is simple, adorable and a complete laugh riot

Deepti Dixit single handedly manages 90 children, in class 1 to 5, of a primary government school in Dhanras village in Chhattisgarh. But rather than getting bogged down by the situation, she has introduced innovative methods of teaching the rural kids, and is also training local women in stitching and sewing. Dixit aims to bring the government school up to par with the education quality and resources of private schools.

Meet a 58-year-old grandmother, an ASHA worker in a village, who has found a tech guru in her 16-year-old granddaughter and is learning the nuances of the internet for work as well as entertainment

Ali Mohammad Najar from Budgam, Kashmir, is painfully aware that he is perhaps one of the last custodians of the craft of wooden utensils, which were once integral to every Kashmiri kitchen. The craftsman now works as a labourer and repairs wooden roofs to make ends meet.

The aim of the Government of India’s NIPUN Bharat programme is attaining universal foundational literacy and numeracy in all primary schools by 2026-27. Read on to know about the best and the worst performing states/UTs from the Foundational Literacy and Numeracy Report 2023.