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
The episode is available on:
rishvanth.com 
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