Srinagar, April 15 -- How educated does a leader have to be and what is the consequence of a lack of intellectual exposure? The Congress is making fun of the fact that Smriti Irani did not go to college. She joined a correspondence course but did not finish it, which probably means she had no interest in furthering her education.
Ms Irani is a smart and clever individual and her lack of formal education does not appear to have hindered her progress, though one can judge her quality only from her policy interventions that not many of us have any idea about. There is no shame in not having gone to college, but Ms Irani got into trouble because she had made some claims about her education (having gone to Yale University) which were misleading...