Author
Swaha Sahoo heads the PARAG Initiative of the Tata Trusts as the development officer. She has been with the Trusts since 2011. Ms Sahoo holds a Masters in International Education and Development from the University of Sussex. She has written about issues in the Indian education and social sector, such as education for first-generation learners, challenges of the Right to Education Act, shortage of teachers in the country, curriculum development, dynamics of financing education in India and challenges of implementing policies in a decentralized political structure.
The Children’s First Contest that was launched by Parag along with Duckbill Books and Vidya Sagar School, Chennai, solicited manuscripts that treated children with special needs as children first—with all the hopes, fears, mischief and fun that comes with being children.
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