Dr. John Kurrien, devoted a remarkable career of over four decades to championing the development and education of India’s most vulnerable infants, school students, and out-of-school youth. After being on the education faculty of TISS for seven years, he co-founded Centre for Learning Resources (CLR) in 1984. As its Co-director for almost three decades, he facilitated projects with government agencies and NGOs in various Indian states and was a member of several national-level committees. His research included a book on elementary education in India; a World-Bank commissioned report on the education of poor girls and women, conceptualising and maintaining blogs on RTE and the NEP. He continued to publish in academic journals and the popular press on issues focusing on educational marginalisation and inequality.