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Spotlight Interview: Sandy Hooda who created Matthew Moss which is considered to be amongst the 10 greatest progressive schools in the world. It has David Price, OBE, who through his Amazon bestselling book 'Open' is transforming education around the world. And we have Rajan Hooda who has held leadership roles in several fortune 500 companies. A truly world class education team! These guys are deeply involved in various elements of the creation process. The school is designed by FNI, USA which has more than a decade of experience in the science behind learning spaces. Their work was recently published by The Harvard University Press. We also spent a lot of time understanding the local cultural, social, educational and architectural context. A school is not a Mc Donald's; it is an organic creature and has to be built ground up with a lot of sweat, care and understanding. Tell us about your personal involvement in education field and why did you choose to get involved passionately in building a school? I realized through my personal experience that my school education not only undermin Y^H