The book Introduction to Rational Inquiry by KP Mohanan and Tara Mohanan seeks to help learners from Grade 8 onwards to develop the capacity for critical thinking and inquiry across academic disciplines. Rather than teaching subject-specific content, it equips readers with the foundational tools of academic intelligence — observing, classifying, defining, reasoning, explaining, justifying, and debating — skills that cut across the boundaries of science, mathematics, the human

The concept of “X cannot be created or destroyed” is part of the ontology of many orthodox traditions of ancient philosophy in the Indian subcontinent. But it also appears in the ontology of ancient Greek philosophy and in the ontology of modern science. Heraclitus, like Buddha, emphasised impermanence (change), saying “one cannot step into the same river twice.” In contrast, Plato, like the Vedantins , emphasised changelessness. The former called it Brahman, manifested as in

K. P. Mohanan You can find a pdf file of the article linked here.

K. P. Mohanan, Madhav Kaushish Numbers and numerals used to represent numbers are different things. So are the triangles we draw on paper...

K. P. Mohanan, Madhav Kaushish Graphs are extremely useful to represent relationships across disciplines. This video explores the use of...

K. P. Mohanan There are various ways in which disciplines interact. There is interdisciplinarity, which is about ideas present in the...