Advocate Peesh Chopra

 Homework used to be simple — a notebook, a pencil, and a deadline. Today, in many Indian homes, it has quietly turned into a digital divide. Not the big, dramatic divide you see in reports. A smaller one. A quieter one. The kind that unfolds around a dining table when a child whispers, “Papa, phone milega? Teacher ne app mein homework diya hai…” The Hidden Reality: Homework Needs a Device, Not Just Discipline We talk a lot about digital learning in schools, but almost never about what happens after the bell rings. Homework has gone digital faster than families have. For millions of households, this leads to three uncomfortable truths: One phone, many users, zero time. When a family shares a single smartphone, a child’s homework competes with a parent’s work calls or daily chores. Apps assume parents are tech-proficient. Many parents feel judged simply because they don’t know where the “upload” button is. Homework becomes a stress test for the whole family. In...

 Walk into any education conference these days, and you’ll hear the same buzz: “global platforms,” “scalable AI,” “next-gen learning.” But here’s a thought — what if India’s biggest EdTech opportunity isn’t in scaling globally, but in going local ? The Middle We Often Miss India’s education landscape isn’t binary — it’s not just elite urban schools on one end and government schools on the other. Between them lies what I call the missing middle — the thousands of affordable private schools, semi-urban institutions, and community-run setups that teach millions of children every day. This “middle” doesn’t have fancy tech budgets, but it has something far more valuable: aspiration . These schools are eager to innovate, but they need tools built for their realities, not imported models designed for different contexts. Why Global Doesn’t Always Mean Better Many global EdTech platforms are designed for high-speed internet, personal devices, and small classroom sizes — a luxury in mu...