·FF Life
What Happened to Just Being Stupid?
The young professionals who don't want AI to think for them
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Ipsita Bandyopadhyay
Head of Research and Strategy | Quipper Research
Ground Realities
This blog is an attempt to understand what’s happening inside people’s homes, in their lives. The ups and downs, as reflected in their social and economic world. It is anchored by the team at Quipper Research, led by its co-founder and CEO Piyul Mukherjee.
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·Technology & the Future
AI in Schools: Not a Generational Divide, but a Dialogue Waiting to Happen
Two years since ChatGPT entered classrooms, students and teachers are already using AI in everyday learning. Official policies may be slow to catch up, but a quiet reckoning is underway—through whispers, workarounds, and growing calls for clarity
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Ishani Ray
Senior Research Executive | Quipper Research
·Economy, Policy & Society
A river in spate, landslides and nature’s fury
Climate change and growing urbanisation is slowly but surely changing a way of life in Himachal Pradesh. A tale of two ordinary villages and one town that are not on the tourist map
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Sveta Basraon
Editor and Head of Operations | Founding Fuel
·FF Life
Educated, aspiring, but struggling for opportunities
FF Life: The story of four women who are among the many who fall into the gap between ‘Ladki Padhao’ (educate girls) and ‘Naukri Karvao’ (allow them to work)
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Piyul Mukherjee
Co-Founder | Quipper Research Private Limited
·Leadership & Organisation
How diverse really is India Inc’s diversity agenda?
Companies have an ableist bias. Youth4Jobs, and the young people they’ve trained, are fighting that bias
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Ipsita Bandyopadhyay
Head of Research and Strategy | Quipper Research
·Economy, Policy & Society
Once the pandemic is over, I wish…
What are the hopes and dreams of ordinary people?
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Founding Fuel
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
They chose schools for creative learning. What’s the benefit now, they ask
These two working moms wanted holistic development for their kids. Now they are struggling to create an at-home learning experience. Meanwhile, two nine-year-olds talk about what they miss about “real school”
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Piyul Mukherjee
Co-Founder | Quipper Research Private Limited
·Economy, Policy & Society
Unplanned online education is short-changing our children
A literal and figurative screen has come up between learning and growth on one side and teaching on the other. Two senior school students and a teacher offer a view into a system that is falling short
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Piyul Mukherjee
Co-Founder | Quipper Research Private Limited
·Economy, Policy & Society
Teetering on the Edge. Of survival
These three women—a taxi driver, a beautician, and a nurse—had many hopes that seemed within their reach in the City of Dreams Mumbai. Now, with another surge in Covid-19 cases, they are fighting hard to not let it all turn into a nightmare
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Piyul Mukherjee
Co-Founder | Quipper Research Private Limited
·Economy, Policy & Society
So, who or what is mofussil?
India’s small towns move beyond the Bunty-Babli stereotype as they emerge as new labour hubs in the post-Covid world
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Piyul Mukherjee
Co-Founder | Quipper Research Private Limited