The Smart and the Dumb: The Politics of Education in India

What does education do? Whose needs are being met by education? What does education mean to different people? Why did schooling fall short in providing equality of opportunity? Vishal Vasanthakumar joins us in this episode to illustrate the complex issues involved in the provision and purpose of education in India.  References:  Vishal Vasanthakumar: LinkedIn, Twitter, Cambridge Website Following Fish: Travels around the Indian coast by Samanth Subramanian Slouching towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life by  Ryszard Kapuscinski China in Seven Banquets: A Flavourful History by Thomas David DuBois  The forms of capital by Pierre Bourdieu The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? By Michael J. Sandel