September 2025

Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 29 sep 2025

India's demographic dividend, with over 65% of the population under the age of 35, will benefit in a transformative way if the youth channelize their strength towards purposeful and productive contribution towards India's overall development. Healthcare is one of the area where challenges are many and skills are lacking among the workforce. But there are huge opportunities in healthcare for this youthful India. Dr. Preetha Reddy, Executive Vice Chairperson of Apollo Hospitals, explores the many possibilities that this young group of Indians can pursue in healthcare sector and become bearers of positive change and development. She says, 'Health care offers one of the most powerful avenues to channel this potential. When a young person is trained to become a nurse, a technician, a community health worker, or an emergency responder, we do more than provide a livelihood. We create a pathway to service. We strengthen families and communities. We build resilience where it matters most.' She further explains, 'Women, in particular, form the backbone of India's health care system...We must equip more women to move beyond service delivery, say many more to lead primary care centres, health-tech enterprises, training institutions and health policy think tanks...When we talk about skilling our youth in health care, we are not simply referring to technical training. We are speaking of building a culture of empathy, ethics, and excellence. The health worker of tomorrow must be multi-skilled, digitally fluent, culturally aware, and deeply committed to care.' Read on...

THE WEEK: How healthcare skilling is empowering India's youth
Author: Preetha Reddy

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Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 27 sep 2025

Just like in many other professional fields, technology is a catalyst of change, and architecture is not an exception. Technologies and processes such as Building Information Modeling (BIM), 3D Printing, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) etc are bringing this technology-driven shift in architectural practice. Architectural education is similarly going through the similar transformation to prepare students for this highly competitive technology oriented marketplace to find their place and space. Prof. Anand Achari, Principal at VES College of Architecture (VESCOA, Mumbai), explains his views on how immersive technologies such as VR and AR are changing the architectue education landscape and how the future architects would think, feel and create. He emphasises the need of adaptability and empathy as essential skills for design practice. He says, 'What excites me is the shift from imagination to immersion. In traditional architecture education, students relied heavily on drawings, physical models, and their ability to mentally visualise a space. AR and VR remove those limitations. Now, students can step inside their designs, exploring scale, proportions, and light in real time. That kind of spatial understanding, especially early in their journey, is transformative.' He further explains, 'These tools are blurring the old separation between form and function. In VR, you can feel how people might move through a space before it's even built...the biggest impact is empathy. AR and VR allow you to experience your design from different perspectives...leads to more inclusive, people-centred design...Architecture no longer exists in a silo. If you understand coding, you can develop your own simulation tools or responsive designs. Environmental science deepens your approach to sustainability...Behavioural psychology helps you design for how people feel in a space...The most innovative ideas often come from these cross-disciplinary conversations.' Read on...

The Hans India: How AR and VR are changing architecture education
Author: NA

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