India, April 7 -- The education system in India is at a crossroads. The end result could be devastating. The stakeholders - teachers, educational institutions, the student community, and the people at large - are silently bearing the brunt and are unwilling to protest. That a prominent national opposition leader chose to identify the evils of the education system is refreshing.

Sonia Gandhi, chairperson of the Congress Parliamentary Party, in her article The 3Cs that haunt Indian education today, in The Hindu, March 31, 2025, says that in education, the Modi government is enforcing three core agenda items, namely centralisation, commercialisation and communalisation. The essence of the article is summarised here as the issues identified ...