To reduce education to a transactional exchange of knowledge acquired and economic value created is a ticking time-bombing of self-destruction. I would like people in positions of power to look at young India as more than a demographic dividend
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I do not remember the precise moment when we became friends. We went to the same college and she was a few years senior. Most juniors silently admired this affable and bright student, the Premier of Patna Women’s College.
I got to know her better when I came to Delhi for my Post-graduation in 1977.Those days few Bihari girls came to Delhi for studies and along with TukTuk we formed a comfortable threesome in the South Block of the Post- graduate Women’s Hostel in Delhi University. (Meena B as we jokingly called Meena Bhargava joined our group later as the only non-Bihari). Away from home we had found our comfort zone and it was here that we got to know Papiya better amidst extended gossip sessions, trips to Connaught Place , Arts Faculty, Coffee House, Tibetan Monastery, Empire Stores and begging for extra portions of meat or fish and dessert from waiter Sher Singh in the hostel mess. As we slowly became friends with this fun loving warm person the kind who