Living Academy in Pune on Kishore Bharati

About

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Twenty-one years after India gained freedom from British imperialism in 1947, about a dozen people in Mumbai with diverse academic-cum-linguistic backgrounds and social experience began to steadily gel together as a group. The group, henceforth referred to as the Mumbai Working…

Kishore Bharati Members

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Trustees & Members: Prof. Anil Sadgopal: Founder of Kishore Bharati, Former Professor at Delhi University 810×608 65 KB Prof. Anil Sadgopal: Founder of Kishore Bharati, Former Professor at Delhi University Prof. Haragopal G: Chairperson, Kishore Bharati, Professor at Central…

Terms of Use

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Privacy Policy

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Contact

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CUBE

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Thousands of students participate in CUBE programs across the country 960×480 972 KB Thousands of students participate in CUBE programs across the country Collaboratively Understanding Biology Education (CUBE) program is an alternative paradigm to integrate learning by doing…

Hoshangabad Science Teaching Program (HSTP)

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HSTP students learning on field 711×1055 1.23 MB HSTP students learning on field Hoshangabad Science Teaching Program (HSTP) was an initiative to improve science teaching and learning at school levels and developing innovative and interactive ways of school science teaching.…

Nai Taleem

Fri, 11 Jun 2021 13:59:56 +0000

Gandhi’s Nai Taleem agenda offered a vision to build free-India’s education in a manner that would spearhead a silent reconstruction of our society and would also be linked to the developmental aspirations of the people. During 1969-70, out of a deep concern for the way where…

Other Programs

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Farming & Horticulture 1113×707 1.33 MB Farming & Horticulture Sawaliram 940×940 10.7 KB Sawaliram Water Conservation 940×940 9.71 KB Water Conservation Reproductive Health & Gender Issues 940×940 7.05 KB Reproductive Health & Gender Issues Libraries and Documentation 940×940…

Chintan Shivir a critical reflection session on re-imagining education

Fri, 24 Feb 2023 15:26:34 +0000

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Publications

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 17:47:14 +0000

2560×1920 753 KB Title: The Paradox of Rural Development in India, The Devapur Experience Author:Suresh Suratwala Introduction by: Anil Sadgopal Edited by: Rajendra Hardenia Published by: Kishore Bharati, February, 2020 Download Link Title: जनसंख्या नियंत्रण के मिथक और…

Donate

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Kishore Bharati is a volunteer-based trust with limited or no full-time employees and depends a lot on the quality time of volunteers and donations to support our program expenses. Donors can avail of 80G tax exemption. Please read the following donation policy before sending…

Commencement of CUBE National Meet at Somaiya College, 2023

Fri, 28 Jul 2023 18:31:12 +0000

CUBE National Meet, 2023 was organized in collaboration with K J Somaiya College of Science and Commerce, Somaiya Vidyavihar, Mumbai 1 , and Somaiya Center for Experiential Learning (SCEL) between 20th & 23rd July 2023 at Somaiya Vidyavihar Campus. The event included 2-days…

CUBE National Meet 2023

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 13:08:54 +0000

Kishore Bharati in collaboration with K.J Somaiya College of Science & Commerce and Somaiya Centre for Experiential Learning (SCEL), Somaiya Vidyavihar University presents CUBE National Meet 2023, with the theme, ‘Re-imagining Biology Education and Research: Connecting CUBE…

How to Reach IISER Pune

Fri, 24 Feb 2023 16:18:47 +0000

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CUBE-Kishore Bharati at the 4th Conference of the ISEB (Indian Society of Evolutionary Biologists) at Ahmadabad University

Fri, 17 Feb 2023 17:21:06 +0000

CUBE students were invited and participated in Indian Society of Evolutionary Biologists (ISEB) Conference at Ahmadabad University from 9th to 11th February, 2023. Cubists @Theertha @Shraddha276 and @Lakshmy attended the conference and presented posters on their work in the…

List of participants for Chintan Shivir

Sat, 04 Feb 2023 08:47:21 +0000

Sharad Chandra Behar, Bhopal, Former Secretary, Education & Chief Secretary, M.P. Govt. 300×225 88.7 KB Sharad Chandra Behar, Bhopal, Former Secretary, Education & Chief Secretary, M.P. Govt. JBG Tilak, Professor, Council for Social Development & NIEPA 500×375 214 KB JBG Tilak,…

Chintan Shivir: a critical reflection session on re-imagining education (announcement)

Sat, 28 Jan 2023 07:38:31 +0000

Chintan Shivir Poster 1080×1080 241 KB Chintan Shivir Poster On the occasion of 50 years celebration of Kishore Bharati organization, a two day critical reflection session (Chintan Shivir) is organized by in association with Indian Institute of Science Education and Research…

Celebration of 1000 Days of CUBE Chatshaala & Home Labs

Sun, 18 Dec 2022 17:04:51 +0000

Collaboratively Understanding Biology Program of Kishore Bharati completed 1000 days of its Chatshaala and Home Labs on 14th December, 2022. The Home Labs model was exiting in CUBE even before pandemic however after Covid-19 Pandemic the Home Labs model become dominant in…

Presentation on Scientific Temper at Comparative Education Society of India (CESI) Conference

Thu, 15 Dec 2022 16:35:19 +0000

Kishore Bharati presented a paper on the topic ‘Extending Community of Practice (CoP) beyond Institutes to Inculcate STEM Habits in Society’ in 12th International CESI Conference at Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, 9th-11th December, 2022. The paper included…

Education and the Constitution Talks at IISER, Pune

Thu, 01 Sep 2022 11:16:00 +0000

Prof. Anil Sadgopal presented his series of talks at IISER Pune organized by Disha organization on the occasion of 75th anniversary of Independence Day . The first talk was delivered on 17th August, 2022 on the theme, ‘Pre-Independence Discourse: Laying the foundation for the…

Paper on Work and Education presented at AIPSN Conference, Bhopal

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 11:13:02 +0000

The paper was written by Prof.Anil Sadgopal for presentation at 17th All India People’s Science Network Conference organized in Bhopal from 6th to 9th June, 2022. The paper was read in workshop at AIPSN conference which was participated by Kishore Bharati members Prof. Arunan…

Announcement of CUBE Awards to the selected recipients for the year 2022

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 09:16:09 +0000

CUBE Awards are awarded each year in the name of acclaimed scientists and personalities to the selected CUBE members who stood out in various aspects in the award categories. The list of CUBE awards for the year 2022 is as follows, DD Kosambi Award 2022 Veronica Rodrigues Award…

Map of Area around Kishore Bharati

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Commencement of CUBE National Meet 2022 (28th June to 2nd July 2022)

Fri, 15 Jul 2022 13:42:36 +0000

Popularizing Science Education through HOME LAB Network CUBE National Meet was conducted from 28th June to 2nd July, participants from all across country who are working on several science projects in their home labs joined and presented their work. CUBE national meet gave…

CUBE-Kishore Bharati collaboration with All India Peoples’ Science Network for National Scientific Temperament Day Events

Fri, 15 Jul 2022 13:28:40 +0000

We are happy to announce that CUBE-Kishore Bharati is collaborating with All India Peoples’ Science Network (AIPSN) to celebrate upcoming National Scientific Temperament Day which is going to take place across different regions in Maharashtra. There are several science…

State Platform for Common School System- Tamil Nadu (SPCSS-TN)

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 19:54:36 +0000

In Commemoration of the 132nd Birthday of Babasaheb Dr. B.R Ambedkar, National Convention on “Education and Democracy through the prism of Constitution” A national convention was organized on ‘Education and Democracy through the Prism of the Constitution’ in Chennai, Tamil…

Celebrating CUBE Home Labs Anniversary: Home Labs are Possible

Fri, 25 Mar 2022 18:22:46 +0000

CUBE entered into its 3rd year of continuation of Home Lab movement, on this occasion an event was planned to celebrate Home Labs with presentations by Cubists of Elphinstone college, Mumbai. Several model systems like Earthworm, Hydra, Fruit Fly, Moina, Phyllanthus and so on…

Cancellation and Refund Policy

Fri, 25 Mar 2022 10:57:11 +0000

Kishore Bharati expects that the donors will exercise due care and diligence while making donations. In case of an unintended donation made by mistake or change of mind, we can process refund requests of donation if the requests reach us with all the details within 30days of…

Chai & Why Session on Home Labs

Fri, 04 Mar 2022 10:19:30 +0000

1280×720 180 KB In the times of pandemic and when all across world science and education was at standstill, cubists innovated a way to do science, by converting their homes into labs, and carrying ahead with scientific explorations and discussions through Home Labs. Here is the…

‘Populating India with STEM Spectators: Gully Cricket Model of Spreading STEM Culture’

Fri, 04 Mar 2022 10:14:18 +0000

Conference on Integrating Science with Society, 15-16 December 2018, Jadavpur University, Breakthrough Science Society Session 4: Reforming Science Education The session was chaired by Prof. Narayan Banerjee, Professor, IISER Kolkata. Prof M C Arunan, CUBE Lab, Homi Bhabha…

Darwin Day Celebration, 2022

Fri, 04 Mar 2022 10:08:49 +0000

CUBists presenting their work to fresh participants of ZSK National Webinar on CUBE: A new approach in Biology Education as a part of Darwin day celebration, 2022 Please watch this video to know about CUBE’s Gully Cricket Model: An Approach to Biology Education & Research

Simple model systems and sophisticated questions the scientific legacy of Obaid Siddiqi

Fri, 04 Mar 2022 09:14:40 +0000

Annals of Neurosciences, Volume 20, Issue 4 (October), 2013 by M.C Arunan & Gadiraju Nagarjuna 212×278 54 KB Obaid Siddiqi too was re-born more than once, if his research work of about 60 years in biology tells us anything. First, as a molecular geneticist: in analyzing the…

Transforming Undergraduate Science Education: Collaborative Undergraduate Biology Education (CUBE)

Fri, 04 Mar 2022 09:06:28 +0000

The Biology we teach should authentically reflect the biology we do: In the current scenario of the undergraduate education, colleges and research centres work in isolation with each other. It is not uncommon that individuals within the same institute too do not collaborate and…

Documentation Centre

Wed, 02 Mar 2022 20:23:10 +0000

In September 2007, a bilingual (Hindi and English) Documentation Centre was set up for use by individuals and social organizations, particularly in Madhya Pradesh, engaged in struggles for protecting and establishing the rights of the marginalized sections of the society to…

Education Policy Interventions

Wed, 02 Mar 2022 19:49:10 +0000

As a result of the in-depth experience of educational interventions both within and outside the school system, Kishore Bharati’s representative (Dr, Anil Sadgopal) was nominated by the respective Prime Ministers of India to be a member of two major policy-making bodies viz.…

Democratic & Human Rights

Wed, 02 Mar 2022 19:48:16 +0000

In the early 1980s, the KB Group provided core support in organizing a state-level democratic and human rights movement. In 1985-87, we undertook documentation and other such tasks in support of the movement of Bhopal gas victims in seeking justice from the Union Carbide and…

Libraries & Documentation

Wed, 02 Mar 2022 19:47:22 +0000

KISHORE BHARATI organized a popular mobile library going through the surrounding villages over a bicycle. Hundreds of children and youth became its regular subscribers. This encouraged us to join hands with the educated youth of the nearby town of Pipariya and organize the…

Peasant Mobilisation

Wed, 02 Mar 2022 19:46:03 +0000

In 1981, the small and marginal farmers along with the landless of village Palia Piparia were mobilised in a mazdoor sangathan (a sort of peasant organization) to protest against the almost century-old feudal oppression over their lives. They identified issues relating to…

Reproductive Health and the Gender Issue

Wed, 02 Mar 2022 19:42:56 +0000

Our engagement with the dais helped focus attention on some of the critical issues of reproductive health. A village-level study entitled, “Phool To Jharte Hi Hain” (“Flowers are Bound to be Shed) revealed that the high infant mortality rate had been accepted as part of women’s…

Public Health

Wed, 02 Mar 2022 19:41:31 +0000

Our interest in the issues of Public Health grew in late 1970s with the realization that both the infrastructure and the quality of service at Primary Health Centre at the Block level was deteriorating rapidly. This phenomenion caught our attention when reports piled up in 1978…

Water Conservation

Wed, 02 Mar 2022 19:40:36 +0000

Exploring low-cost and sustainable techniques of water conservation for farming became an existential question for Kishore Bharati as the revenue land given to it by the state government had sandy soil (sehra) which had extremely low capacity to hold water. Most of the soils of…

Irrigation

Wed, 02 Mar 2022 19:39:05 +0000

Right from the beginning of its rural campus in 1972, Kishore Bharati started promoting the appropriate technology of constructing pre-fabricated cement concrete rings (4 feet diameter) for making ‘mini-tubewells’, popularly known as Ring Wells. Nine live models of Ring Wells,…

Sawaliram

Wed, 02 Mar 2022 19:37:53 +0000

HSTP program also created its own curriculum and books, the uniqueness of these books was that these were workbooks in contrast of textbooks, all the books demanded exploring, performing activities, experiments to come to answers, in this process students curiosity used to get…

CUBE Chatshaala

Wed, 09 Feb 2022 15:31:58 +0000

CUBE Chatshaala are innovation of CUBE mainly developed during pandemic era to connect to students across country and carry forward science endeavour and research projects of students even during lockdowns. Chatshaala sessions take place every day in evening in online mode…

CUBE Context to Curriculum

Wed, 09 Feb 2022 15:13:22 +0000

CUBE projects are connected to curriculum and many times are beyond curriculum as well, CUBE discussions help students to understand concepts in real lives, and how science is done in real world, and provides real life contexts to their curriculm, therefore CUBE uncovers the…

CUBE Home Labs

Wed, 09 Feb 2022 15:02:10 +0000

CUBE Home Labs are innovations by CUBists to perform experiments in their homes using frugal and simple home replacements for laboratory science. CUBE Home labs are showing how science doesn’t need sophisticated laboratory setups, it can also be done in-home and in the…

CUBE Lab Engagements & Causerie

Wed, 09 Feb 2022 14:55:02 +0000

Evening discussion sessions also known as Causerie at Collaboratively Understanding Biology Lab at Homi Bhabha Science Centre, TIFR, are regular point of meeting and engagement for students across different colleges and schools. The students visit lab, work on several projects…

Kishore Bharati Irrigation Work

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Awards to Kishore Bharati (UGC Award)

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Awards to KB (Rathindra Award)

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Farming & Horticulture

Mon, 24 Jan 2022 10:43:31 +0000

Farming was undertaken on a substantial scale on the Kishore Bharati Campus land. This gave opportunity to all the Team members to learn the art and science of farming so that we come to appreciate the problems faced by the village community and help them to resolve the…

Kishore Bharati Campus Pictures

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Kishore Bharati Field

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Grassland & Fodder Development

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Hoshangabad Science Teaching Program

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Fruit-fly food menu has one more addition

Sun, 14 Nov 2021 07:16:32 +0000

By Abhijeet Singh, Saida Sayyed and Smiti 13th November 2021 The story of the new BPCV (Banana, Potato, Custard apple, Vinegar) media for culturing Fruitfly in home labs is very interesting! Smiti, a first-year B.Sc student from Elphinstone college, Mumbai wanted to study the…

CUBE Awards 2020

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 16:24:59 +0000

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Anil Sadgopal on Obaid Siddiqi

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 12:11:00 +0000

Late Prof. Obaid Siddiqi: Personal Memoirs – Anil Sadgopal/27-28 June, 2021 Memoir No. 1 (687 words) It was sometime towards the closing months of 1967. I was struggling round the clock at CalTech (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena) to finish my PhD research and…

Hoshangabad Science Teaching Program (2021 post)

Sun, 20 Jun 2021 08:04:03 +0000

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CUBE from a teacher’s perspective

Sun, 20 Jun 2021 08:02:54 +0000

By Aashutosh Mule 30th October 2021 It was a winter month of 2011. I had finished my post-graduation and was looking forward to pursue a PhD degree in neuroscience. I had heard of the Masters in Neuroscience course at the Life Science department of Sophia College. I went to…

Anil Sadgopal awarded Homi Bhabha award for science education

Sun, 20 Jun 2021 07:59:55 +0000

By Aashutosh Mule 2nd September 2021 654×329 214 KB Professor Anil Sadgopal, known for revolutionising the education sector in Madhya Pradesh, was on Friday felicitated with the Homi Bhabha Award in Science and Education 2018. The award is presented every alternate year by the…

Award winning work!

Sun, 20 Jun 2021 07:58:39 +0000

By Aashutosh Mule 29th September 2021 Close to a hundred students from across the country bagged awards during the National Meet 2020 for their innovative home-lab activities during the pandemic imposed lockdown. The online National meet was organized to celebrate the spirit of…

National Annual meet 2021

Sun, 20 Jun 2021 07:57:45 +0000

By Saida Sayyed 24th September 2021 Working from Home-Labs continued for the CUBists. While they continued on making innovations, they did not treat their older innovations as some finished products. In fact we saw CUBists bring in more refinements to their older innovations…

National Annual Meet 2020

Sun, 20 Jun 2021 07:54:49 +0000

By Saida Sayyed 15th September 2021 When the lockdown was imposed last year, many students working under the CUBE program of Kishore Bharati lost access to their school and college labs. It seemed that their project work would halt as long as the lockdown sustained. However,…

Phase VI

Sat, 19 Jun 2021 08:58:06 +0000

Phase VI (2003-15): Re-defining KB’s Role in Social Transformation Beginning in 2003-04, the EC undertook a detailed analysis of the post- globalisation education policies and evaluation of neoliberal impact on Indian polity, in general, and education, in particular. It was…

Phase V

Sat, 19 Jun 2021 08:58:00 +0000

Phase V (1992-2003): Hibernation and Introspection The EC decided to hibernate and introspect in the wake of winding up KB’s rural campus, before undertaking any further programme. A decision to document KB’s history was taken but, unfortunately never carried out. The EC…

Phase IV

Sat, 19 Jun 2021 08:57:57 +0000

Phase IV (1988-92): Towards Winding Up of the Rural Campus A major debate ensued from 1988 onwards around the following questions: What are the limits of institutional framework (particularly its campus-based form) and its organizational implications in catalyzing social…

Phase III

Sat, 19 Jun 2021 08:57:54 +0000

Phase III (1982-88): Bold New ‘Adventures’ but Without Organisational or Ideological Preparedness Reproductive Awareness and Women’s Health; Involvement in women’s movement across the country (1980s onwards). Formation of EKLAVYA and Expansion of HSTP beyond Hoshangabad…

About Kishore Bharati (2021)

Sat, 19 Jun 2021 08:57:44 +0000

50 years of KB Freeing itself from the clutches of British rule, an Independent India envisioned to build free India’s education in a manner that would spearhead a silent reconstruction of our society and would also be linked to the developmental aspirations of the people. The…

Phase II

Sun, 13 Jun 2021 14:04:16 +0000

Phase II (1972-82): Engagement with Reality — Multi-Dimensional Response Even before the work on the Palia Pipariya rural campus in Foshangabad Distt. took off the ground, the sustained questioning by Sudarshan Kapoor of Friends Rural Centre, Rasulia (1971-72) began to…

Phase I

Sun, 13 Jun 2021 14:04:12 +0000

Phase I (1969-72) : The Emergence of an Idea and Birth of Rural Campus In the late 1960s, a group gradually took shape in Mumbai, doubting the correctness of the post-independence model of development. Rural development was essentinlly a plan of shifting rural poverty into…

History

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:20:52 +0000

History Phase I (1969-72) : The Emergence of an Idea and Birth of Rural Campus In the late 1960s, a group gradually took shape in Mumbai, doubting the correctness of the post-independence model of development. Rural development was essentinlly a plan of shifting rural poverty…

Tribute to Obaid Siddiqi: Bringing Science to Society

Mon, 04 Aug 2014 09:23:00 +0000

A warm smile, a sharp vision, a simple personality, a courageous soul, and a revolutionary outlook, this is what Obaid Siddiqi was all about to his many students and admirers! With the patience of a snail and the astuteness of an ant, with the spontaneity of a fruitfly and live…