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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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AI in Schools: Not a Generational Divide, but a Dialogue Waiting to Happen
·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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Ipsita Bandyopadhyay

Ipsita Bandyopadhyay

Head of Research and Strategy | Quipper Research

A river in spate, landslides and nature’s fury
·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

Sveta Basraon

Editor and Head of Operations | Founding Fuel

Educated, aspiring, but struggling for opportunities
·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

Piyul Mukherjee

Co-Founder | Quipper Research Private Limited

How diverse really is India Inc’s diversity agenda?
·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

Ipsita Bandyopadhyay

Head of Research and Strategy | Quipper Research

They chose schools for creative learning. What’s the benefit now, they ask
·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

Piyul Mukherjee

Co-Founder | Quipper Research Private Limited

Unplanned online education is short-changing our children
·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

Piyul Mukherjee

Co-Founder | Quipper Research Private Limited

Teetering on the Edge. Of survival
·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

Piyul Mukherjee

Co-Founder | Quipper Research Private Limited

So, who or what is mofussil?
·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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Ipsita Bandyopadhyay

Ipsita Bandyopadhyay

Head of Research and Strategy | Quipper Research

Stories of compassion from a cauldron in Surat’s textile hub
·Economy, Policy & Society

Stories of compassion from a cauldron in Surat’s textile hub

The lives of small business owners and migrant labour have been turned completely upside down. But the crisis may have also brought the community closer

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Piyul Mukherjee

Piyul Mukherjee

Co-Founder | Quipper Research Private Limited

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