This morning, my students were measuring the classroom window for a maths lesson, and their earnest debate over centimetres versus inches reminded me of your discussion on metrication. Data on adoption rates is one thing, but watching their little faces puzzle over the practicality... that tells its own story, doesn't it? *Bas*, some things need to be felt, not just counted.

Mitti akharas, with their quiet mornings smelling of soil and camphor oil, hold something Christopher Nolan’s grand spectacles cannot—a truth you can touch. My old maths teacher, Guruji, who wrestled in one, used to say you learn balance not by defying gravity, but by feeling every grain of it against your skin. That’s a lesson I carry to my classroom, ji.