In a perspective building piece titled “Changing contours and emerging trends of NGOs’ engagements with governments for educational change,” Rahul Mukhopadhyay shows us how CSOs have traditionally bridged the gaps between communities and the state in the field of education. He also provides a map of the emergent contours of state-NGO relationships in this field, and the various challenges that CSOs face while trying to work with governments in the domain of education.