Montessori in Action Podcast
Engaging conversations with Montessori practitioners
Season 7, Ep. 1
The role of Montessori education globally
Our first episode for Season Seven is a conversation with Jayadev Calamur. Jayadev reached out to me about a book he is writing and wanted to engage in a discussion about the role of Montessori education globally in responding to the times in which we live. He’s currently working on a book exploring where our ideas about how children develop came from and what happens when those ideas meet systems that can't or won't fund them properly.
Website: https://calamurj.substack.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayadev-calamur-strategic-communication/
Jayadev Calamur
Jayadev Calamur is a journalist and communications strategist with twenty years of experience across Indian and international media. He spent thirteen years as a reporter and editor at some of India's largest newsrooms — Times of India, Mumbai Mirror, and DNA — before moving into strategic communications. He holds an MSc in Biochemistry from the University of Mumbai and an Executive MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur.
From 2020 to 2022 he ran international PR for Cuemath, a children's mathematics EdTech platform operating across APAC, MENA, North America, and Europe — writing the messaging that told parents this platform would help their children learn. He now writes a book arguing that EdTech has consistently promised personalisation and delivered scale instead. That tension is not incidental to the book. It is part of its argument.
In April 2026 he published The Vanishing Space Between Questions and Answers, a 14,000-word primary-research report on AI and early childhood development drawing on MIT Media Lab, UNESCO, OECD, and the LEGO Foundation, with field interviews across India. He writes a weekly Substack newsletter on AI, early education, and sustainability. He is based in Pune.