Kishore Darak works as a Sr Manager, Education, Tata Trusts. Within the Trusts, he leads programmes in secondary and higher education and teacher education including the Centre of Excellence in Teacher Education at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. He has been working in the field of education for about 25 years. An alumnus of TISS, Kishore holds a Diploma in Finnish Education from Helsinki University, Finland and is a fellow of Georg Eckert Institute of International Textbook Research, Braunschweig, Germany. He has taught STEM courses at high school and undergrad levels for more than a decade. He has worked on textbook development committees of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra states. Teacher development, cultural politics of education and language, educational policies and practice, pedagogy of Mathematics, are areas of his research interest. He has written extensively in Marathi language print-media on issues related to school education and has presented his work in many international conferences and published in renowned journals.