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THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MAGAZINE

Volume X XIV No.10

BOARD OF ADVISORS O
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan n several occasions in the past quarter when our energies have
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, been totally focused on compiling, checking and cross-checking
Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, Kirit Mehta, Balkishan
Sharma (Mumbai); Dr. Ramdas Pai (Manipal); scores across 14 parameters, totals and rankings of over 4,000
Prof. Geeta Kingdon (Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. of India’s best primary-secondary schools (from a universe of
Parth Shah, Jeroninio Almeida, Premchand Palety
(Delhi); Dr. Kannan Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra 1.5 million) — since it was tentatively pioneered in 2007, the annual Edu-
Subba (Kurseong); Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. cationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) survey has evolved into the
Achyuta Samanta (Bhubaneswar); Shyama Thakore world’s largest and most comprehensive schools ranking survey — not a few
(London)
within the EducationWorld teams felt the world was too much with us. We
EDITOR burned the midnight oil to get massive tables — the co-ed day schools league
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tables featuring institutional scores of almost 3,000 schools sprawled across
MANAGING EDITOR 120 pages — right. We are only too aware that for ranked schools every detail
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is of high importance (see mailbox page).
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR In last month’s unprecedented 396-page issue, we published league tables
Sundar Anand ranking the country’s most admired Day schools — co-ed, boys and girls –
Paromita Sengupta, Reshma Ravishanker, Gopi nationally, in states, cities/towns and parameters-wise. Vintage/legacy day
Chand N, (Bangalore), Autar Nehru (Delhi)
9868256512, Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata) schools (established more than 90 years ago) were similarly rated and ranked
9836491981, Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai) inter se separately. This month, we feature the glamour section of EWISR
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2023-24 — the country’s best boarding (co-ed, boys and girls) and Interna-
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