Beyond The Bell Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:51:25 +0530 en-us © 2026 Beyond The Bell yes 6f7f9c09-2e47-57b0-a05f-47aa223a19e4 partnerships@schoolchameleons.com partnerships@schoolchameleons.com School Chameleons episodic false Beyond the Bell brings you the people shaping Indian education, the leaders, changemakers and quiet fixers you rarely hear from directly.

 Conversations on education, leadership and community, from School Chameleons and the Free Press Journal.

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) School Chameleons partnerships@schoolchameleons.com https://storage.buzzsprout.com/dgwemkqyknf00er10xmlo27hntav?.jpg Beyond The Bell The Dignity of Labour Starts With Carrying Your Own Plate ft. Rekha Shahani | Beyond the Bell Ep 4 The Dignity of Labour Starts With Carrying Your Own Plate ft. Rekha Shahani | Beyond the Bell Ep 4 What if a school's real job isn't producing high achievers, but good human beings?

In Episode 4 of Beyond the Bell, we sit down with Rekha Shahani, an educator, trustee and change maker who has spent over three decades championing inclusion, values and responsible citizenship in Indian schools.

She makes the case that even a 100% result sheet means little if a school hasn't shaped character, and that the small things we've stopped teaching, from the dignity of carrying your own plate to the duties that come with democracy, matter more than we admit. She shares how she built genuinely inclusive classrooms, once telling worried parents, "I'm teaching compassion to your children," and how an adult literacy class of six women grew into sixty, with Hindu and Muslim families cooking for one another's festivals.

It's a warm, wide-ranging conversation about what education is really for.

Hosted by Sudipta Dhruva, co-founder of School Chameleons.

🎧 Also on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music
 💙 A School Chameleons production, in collaboration with The Free Press Journal

https://youtu.be/cgjnt9cU8bk

]]> What if a school's real job isn't producing high achievers, but good human beings?

In Episode 4 of Beyond the Bell, we sit down with Rekha Shahani, an educator, trustee and change maker who has spent over three decades championing inclusion, values and responsible citizenship in Indian schools.

She makes the case that even a 100% result sheet means little if a school hasn't shaped character, and that the small things we've stopped teaching, from the dignity of carrying your own plate to the duties that come with democracy, matter more than we admit. She shares how she built genuinely inclusive classrooms, once telling worried parents, "I'm teaching compassion to your children," and how an adult literacy class of six women grew into sixty, with Hindu and Muslim families cooking for one another's festivals.

It's a warm, wide-ranging conversation about what education is really for.

Hosted by Sudipta Dhruva, co-founder of School Chameleons.

🎧 Also on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music
 💙 A School Chameleons production, in collaboration with The Free Press Journal

https://youtu.be/cgjnt9cU8bk

]]> School Chameleons Buzzsprout-19664275 Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0530 1256 1 4 full false The Biggest Mistake Schools Make Today | Neelu Kalro, JBCN International School | Beyond the Bell Ep 3 The Biggest Mistake Schools Make Today | Neelu Kalro, JBCN International School | Beyond the Bell Ep 3 What if the thing that matters most in a child's education never shows up on a report card?

In Episode 03 of Beyond the Bell, Neelu Kalro, Principal of JBCN International School, Chembur, makes a case that many schools are quietly getting backwards. Character is not the soft extra you add once the syllabus is done. It is the thing the syllabus is supposed to serve.

We get into:

  • Why emotional empathy belongs inside the curriculum, not in a once-a-term assembly
  • What an emotionally safe classroom actually looks like on an ordinary Tuesday
  • What AI is changing about the job of a school

A conversation for every educator who has ever suspected that the marks are not the whole story.

https://youtu.be/cgjnt9cU8bk

]]> What if the thing that matters most in a child's education never shows up on a report card?

In Episode 03 of Beyond the Bell, Neelu Kalro, Principal of JBCN International School, Chembur, makes a case that many schools are quietly getting backwards. Character is not the soft extra you add once the syllabus is done. It is the thing the syllabus is supposed to serve.

We get into:

  • Why emotional empathy belongs inside the curriculum, not in a once-a-term assembly
  • What an emotionally safe classroom actually looks like on an ordinary Tuesday
  • What AI is changing about the job of a school

A conversation for every educator who has ever suspected that the marks are not the whole story.

https://youtu.be/cgjnt9cU8bk

]]> https://youtu.be/cgjnt9cU8bk School Chameleons Buzzsprout-19606724 Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:00:00 +0530 1380 education, leadership, India, podcast, future of education, K-12, government schools, schools, principals 1 3 full false Stop Fixing What Your Child Is Bad At ft. Jitendra Karsan, Safari Kids | Beyond the Bell Ep 2 Stop Fixing What Your Child Is Bad At ft. Jitendra Karsan, Safari Kids | Beyond the Bell Ep 2 What does a three-year-old understand about the world that most of us have completely forgotten?

In Episode 2 of Beyond the Bell, Sudipta Dhruva sits down with Jitendra Karsan, Founder of Safari Kids India, who built the country's most thoughtful preschool networks. It started with his own daughter's undiagnosed learning difference, and a question that stayed with him: how did a good school miss this?

This conversation gets into why every child is wired differently, why our schools quietly teach to the "lowest common denominator," how curiosity and creativity get stamped out, and why the first six years shape a person more than any exam ever will. Along the way: compassion as a skill you can teach, raising kids in a screen-filled world, and why "everyone's a winner" might be doing more harm than good.

🎧 Also on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music
 💙 A School Chameleons production, in collaboration with The Free Press Journal

https://youtu.be/cgjnt9cU8bk

]]> What does a three-year-old understand about the world that most of us have completely forgotten?

In Episode 2 of Beyond the Bell, Sudipta Dhruva sits down with Jitendra Karsan, Founder of Safari Kids India, who built the country's most thoughtful preschool networks. It started with his own daughter's undiagnosed learning difference, and a question that stayed with him: how did a good school miss this?

This conversation gets into why every child is wired differently, why our schools quietly teach to the "lowest common denominator," how curiosity and creativity get stamped out, and why the first six years shape a person more than any exam ever will. Along the way: compassion as a skill you can teach, raising kids in a screen-filled world, and why "everyone's a winner" might be doing more harm than good.

🎧 Also on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music
 💙 A School Chameleons production, in collaboration with The Free Press Journal

https://youtu.be/cgjnt9cU8bk

]]> School Chameleons Buzzsprout-19537080 Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0530 1561 1 2 full false What It Takes To Run Asia's Biggest School System ft. Dr. Prachi Jambhekar, BMC What It Takes To Run Asia's Biggest School System ft. Dr. Prachi Jambhekar, BMC Government schools are often defined by assumptions rather than stories.

In our first episode, we sit down with Dr. Prachi Jambhekar, Deputy Municipal Commissioner (Education) at the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to go inside Mumbai's public school system: what actually works, what the myths get wrong, and what's quietly changing.

A School Chameleons × Free Press Journal production.

https://youtu.be/cgjnt9cU8bk

]]> Government schools are often defined by assumptions rather than stories.

In our first episode, we sit down with Dr. Prachi Jambhekar, Deputy Municipal Commissioner (Education) at the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to go inside Mumbai's public school system: what actually works, what the myths get wrong, and what's quietly changing.

A School Chameleons × Free Press Journal production.

https://youtu.be/cgjnt9cU8bk

]]> https://youtu.be/pz-oLukjK7M School Chameleons Buzzsprout-19462473 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0530 1374 education, leadership, India, podcast, future of education, K-12, government schools, schools, principals 1 1 full false