A reflection on the current state of education in India

Where education leads to submissiveness, not self-respect

where knowledge and acceptance depends on certificates

where push-out is called drop-out

where repression breeds fear, powerlessness, alienation and marginalisation

where dependency, not self-sufficiency perpetuates with helplessness

where discontentment is the way of life and dignity is decried

where the system blames the victims to preserve status quo

and the stream of reason is lost in narrow divisions

into that ever-widening hell of majority and minority

O my God,
let my country not sink in the new century