A few months earlier, power blackouts that rural Indians always suffered silently triggered a violent reaction. Why? Umred was just another small town in the middle of nowhere, dusty and underwhelming. But Umred had begun to dream, townspeople told me, because of television, because of cousins with tales of call-center jobs and freedom in the city. Once Umred contracted ambition, blackouts became intolerable. A psychological revolution, a revolution in expectations, had taken place.
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“Electricity is essential to ambition,” an energetic young man named Ravindra Misal explained to me.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Don't Tell Al Gore
The New York Times has a very good article on for-profit education in India that contains this observation:
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