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us earlier this month during a house-to-house survey of four Dalit
and Adivasi hamlets in Latehar, Jharkhand. There was no trace of
online education, most children were unable to read a single word,
and all parents were desperate to see the schools reopen. That
this injustice remained virtually unquestioned for 16 months is a
telling indictment of India’s exclusive democracy.<br>
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<p class="lead-content"><span style="font-weight:
400">Every narrative tells a story. But have you
thought about what the story doesn’t tell?
Sometimes the bigger story may be in what was
omitted. Be it Byju’s founder’s op-ed piece in a
newspaper or the Reserve bank of India in a
press release—what they chose to tell is only
one half of the story. </span></p>
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<p class="lead-content"><span
style="font-weight: 400">Byju Raveendran is
the billionaire founder and CEO of India’s
most valuable edtech firm, Byju’s (if you
want to read </span><i><span
style="font-weight: 400">The Ken’</span></i><span
style="font-weight: 400">s stellar coverage
on the company over the years, </span><a
href="https://the-ken.com/tag/byjus/"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-weight: 400">start here</span></a><span
style="font-weight: 400">). The company is
so adept at growing its market share and
raising capital that valuation figures get
outdated in weeks.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">In June 2020,
it was worth US$10.5 billion. In April 2021,
US$16.5 billion. Now, there’s talk of it
approaching US$21.5 billion. And with China
deciding to clamp down on profiteering in
its edtech sector, there’s even more capital
chasing India and Byju’s. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Byju’s raises
global capital at will. It acquires
companies at will. Byju’s doesn’t need much
help, thank you please.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Which is why
it was surprising to find Byju Raveendran </span><a
href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/how-startup-ecosystem-can-help-india-become-powerhouse-of-global-economy-7457018/"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-weight: 400">author an opinion
piece</span></a><span style="font-weight:
400"> in the </span><i><span
style="font-weight: 400">Indian Express</span></i><span
style="font-weight: 400"> on how “India’s
startup ecosystem </span><i><span
style="font-weight: 400">can help India</span></i><span
style="font-weight: 400"> become powerhouse
of global economy”.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">When CEOs of
powerful companies </span><a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mark-zuckerberg-the-internet-needs-new-rules-lets-start-in-these-four-areas/2019/03/29/9e6f0504-521a-11e9-a3f7-78b7525a8d5f_story.html"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-weight: 400">write</span></a>
<a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/opinion/sunday/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-news.html"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-weight: 400">opinion</span></a>
<a
href="https://www.ft.com/content/602ec7ec-4f18-11ea-95a0-43d18ec715f5"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-weight: 400">pieces</span></a><span
style="font-weight: 400"> in national
newspapers, one must always pay attention.
Because they usually have very strong
reasons to. Reasons that </span><a
href="https://www.vox.com/2019/1/26/18197883/mark-zuckerberg-wsj-regulation-messaging-monopoly"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-weight: 400">may not be very
apparent</span></a><span
style="font-weight: 400"> at first glance. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">In his column,
Raveendran exalts startups. Makes sense.</span></p>
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black;">In 2021 alone, Indian
startups have so far raised
upward of $20 billion in
funding, achieved unicorn
statuses, and more....From 2011,
when India’s first private
company achieved unicorn status,
to being on track to have a
50-plus strong “Unicorn club” in
2021 according to Nasscom, the
country now finds itself at the
epicentre of entrepreneurship.</td>
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<p style="font-size:
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15px;margin-bottom: 5px;">How
startup ecosystem can help
India become powerhouse of
global economy, <a
href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/how-startup-ecosystem-can-help-india-become-powerhouse-of-global-economy-7457018/"
style="font-size: 10px;"
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class="source-name"
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Express</span></a> </p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">He also talks
about India’s demographic promise, and about
how Indians are “set to make up one-fifth of
the world’s working-age population in the
next five years and likely to have an
estimated 850 million internet users by
2030.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">He ends it
with a call seemingly addressed to fellow
startups, but in reality, a message to the
government. </span></p>
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black;">In view of achieving
this transformation at scale,
the Indian startup ecosystem
must focus on developing
solutions that allow businesses
in key sectors to meet goals of
national importance. It also
must view India’s economic and
social challenges as
opportunities for growth and
leverage new technologies. </td>
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<p style="font-size:
10px;margin-top:
15px;margin-bottom: 5px;">How
startup ecosystem can help
India become powerhouse of
global economy, <a
href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/how-startup-ecosystem-can-help-india-become-powerhouse-of-global-economy-7457018/"
style="font-size: 10px;"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
class="source-name"
style="color:
#6ca667;text-decoration:
underline;">The Indian
Express</span></a> </p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">The last
paragraph captures the essence of
Raveendran’s op-ed effort: position the
growth and prosperity of private tech
startups as analogous to India’s national
growth. And quietly acknowledge the presence
of “economic and social challenges” in
India.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">It’s also
important to note what Raveendran does </span><i><span
style="font-weight: 400">not</span></i><span
style="font-weight: 400"> refer to: India’s
school children and their parents.
Considering that they’re his primary
customers and the source of his company’s
galloping valuation, their omission seems
odd.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Because they
are both </span><a
href="https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/raghuram-rajan-warns-of-lost-generation-if-kids-arent-back-at-school-soon"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-weight: 400">in dire distress</span></a><span
style="font-weight: 400">. Tens of millions
of Indian children are perhaps already three
years behind their more privileged peers in
India and elsewhere.</span></p>
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normal;font-size:
16px;line-height: 22px;color:
black;">"Imagine the quality of
lessons they've had over a year
and a half. The problem isn't
just that they are not keeping
up, but that they're
forgetting," Rajan told The
Quint Group Co-Founder Raghav
Bahl in an interview. "If you've
been out of school for a year
and half, you're probably three
years behind at the time you go
back."<br>
Schools in India have remained
shut since the onset of the
Covid-19 outbreak in March 2020.
Any discussions around reopening
earlier this year were thwarted
by a deadly second wave of the
pandemic. According to UNICEF,
the closure of schools has
impacted nearly 25 crore
children across the country.<br>
"If you have not brought these
kids back up to speed in class
and you just treat it business
as usual, the schools open, kids
come back to classes and nothing
really happens, well then you've
got a lost generation of kids,"
he said. "That lost generation
isn't going to go anywhere, it
is going to be there with you
for the next 60 years. How do
you deal with that?"</td>
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<p style="font-size:
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15px;margin-bottom: 5px;">Raghuram
Rajan Warns Of 'Lost
Generation' If Kids Aren't
Back At School Soon, <a
href="https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/raghuram-rajan-warns-of-lost-generation-if-kids-arent-back-at-school-soon"
style="font-size: 10px;"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Research has
shown how even a gap of a few months </span><a
href="https://blog.nebraskachildren.org/2019/12/05/education-poverty-and-the-achievement-gap/"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-weight: 400">during summer
vacations</span></a><span
style="font-weight: 400"> can set back
poorer kids against their wealthier peers.
(Because kids from better-off families
continue informal and guided learning even
during those months).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">What do you
think 1.5 years (and counting) of </span><i><span
style="font-weight: 400">outright school
closures </span></i><span
style="font-weight: 400">will mean?</span></p>
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16px;line-height: 22px;color:
black;">A report published by
Azim Premji University in
February indicates that 92% of
government school students
across grades 2-6 in five states
have forgotten at least one
“specific language ability” from
the previous year. Students have
also forgotten foundational
concepts like numeracy and
literacy from 1-2 grades prior,
the report said. Without
mastering these concepts, they’d
struggle in senior grades.<br>
Losing an entire school year is
gut-wrenching for India’s
low-income students, who mostly
attend government schools or
affordable private schools .
While access to schooling is
less of an issue now, the
quality of education and
problems like teacher
absenteeism, rote learning, and
lack of quality resources have
put Indian students at a cruel
disadvantage.<br>
Even before Covid, almost 40% of
grade 1 students were unable to
recognise letters, according to
an ASER 2019 report. The
pandemic has had a meteor-like
impact on this precarious
situation. It has set students
back and potentially wiped out
entire years of learning from
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<p style="font-size:
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15px;margin-bottom: 5px;">The
hard lessons from India’s lost
school year, <a
href="https://the-ken.com/story/lessons-indias-lost-school-year/"
style="font-size: 10px;"
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class="source-name"
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Online
education is no solution. </span></p>
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16px;line-height: 22px;color:
black;">The fig leaf of online
education has masked the
elephant of school exclusion for
a full 16 months without anyone
taking serious notice outside
specialised circles. This is a
dramatic manifestation of the
indifference of privileged
classes towards the educational
aspirations of the poor.<br>
The enormity of the situation
hit us earlier this month during
a house-to-house survey of four
Dalit and Adivasi hamlets in
Latehar, Jharkhand. There was no
trace of online education, most
children were unable to read a
single word, and all parents
were desperate to see the
schools reopen. That this
injustice remained virtually
unquestioned for 16 months is a
telling indictment of India’s
exclusive democracy.</td>
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<p style="font-size:
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15px;margin-bottom: 5px;">Still
short of schooling at 74, <a
href="https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/still-short-of-schooling-at-74/article35915435.ece"
style="font-size: 10px;"
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">The economic
impact of this is expected to be devastating
for developing economies like India.</span></p>
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black;">On an average, every
student affected by school
closure in a developing Asian
country stands to lose an
estimated $180 every year,
equivalent to a 2.4 percent drop
in average annual earnings in
future. The lost earnings are
projected to reach $16,000 over
a student’s lifetime. Globally,
this generation of students is
at risk of losing about$10
trillion in future life-time
earnings — an amount equivalent
to almost 10 percent of global
GDP. These losses reflect only
the private income of the
individuals and do not capture
the social returns or the
long-term benefits of education
on health, scientific progress,
gender equity, harmony or peace.
It is estimated that in India,
23.8 million additional children
and youth may drop out of
classes this year due to the
pandemic's economic impact
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<p style="font-size:
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15px;margin-bottom: 5px;">We’re
already late to school — Let’s
not delay any further, <a
href="https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/opinion/were-already-late-to-school-lets-not-delay-any-further-7275971.html"
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Capital is, of
course, blind. It chases financial returns.
Which is why India’s stock markets and
startup valuations have continued to defy
the </span><i><span style="font-weight:
400">lived</span></i><span
style="font-weight: 400"> economic reality
of its citizens. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">That is a key
reason why China cracked down on its tech
sector.</span></p>
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political economists believe
that while Beijing's tightened
grip on the private education
sector might hamper the growing
wealth and power of the
online-learning companies, it is
ultimately an attempt to avoid
massive social unrest.<br>
"Education has been crucial to
[the] CCP's legitimacy as a
people's party," Ye Liu, a
sociologist at King's College
London who studies education
inequality in China, told
Protocol. "The recent crackdown
on ed tech and private tutoring
can be seen as an attempt to
respond to the concerns of the
poor."</td>
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<p style="font-size:
10px;margin-top:
15px;margin-bottom: 5px;">China’s
edtech crackdown isn’t what
you think. Here’s why, <a
href="https://www.protocol.com/china/china-edtech-crackdown-education-inequality"
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">And it’s not
that India’s ruling party, the BJP, does not
study what China’s communist party
practices.</span></p>
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Charter-Italic, Georgia, serif;
font-weight: normal;font-style:
italic;font-stretch:
normal;font-size:
16px;line-height: 22px;color:
black;">The Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) plans to not only
surpass the Communist Party of
China (CPC) in terms of
registered members to become the
planet’s largest political party
but now also hopes to learn from
that party's well honed skills
to train cadres.<br>
A 13-member delegation of BJP
legislators left today for
Beijing and Guangzhou for a
week-long visit. According to a
BJP statement, the delegation
will try understand CPC’s
internal party structure,
political functioning and its
role in establishing a welfare
state. The delegation will
interact with CPC leaders and
cadres, from grassroots to its
Central Committee and Politburo.<br>
A key part of the delegation's
itinerary will be a visit to the
‘Party School’ of the Central
Committee of the CPC, located in
Beijing. The delegation will
submit a report to BJP President
Amit Shah of their visit to
China, and particularly to the
CPC Party School. “The BJP is
working towards becoming the
largest party on the planet, and
both BJP and CPC are cadre based
parties and can learn from each
other. Our (BJP's) history is
evidence of how our positive
attitude to constructive
criticism has contributed to our
growth as a political party,”
BJP national secretary Shrikant
Sharma said when asked about the
visit of BJP members to CPC’s
Party School.</td>
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<p style="font-size:
10px;margin-top:
15px;margin-bottom: 5px;">BJP
legislators take lessons at
school run by Communist Party
of China, <a
href="https://www.business-standard.com/article/politics/bjp-legislators-take-lessons-at-school-run-by-communist-party-of-china-114111501563_1.html"
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<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400">That</span></i><span
style="font-weight: 400"> is what
Raveendran’s op-ed is targeted at. The
likelihood of the Indian government peeling
apart the façade of booming edtech
valuations and asking the question: how are
the users and customers of these products
faring? What sort of </span><a
href="https://the-ken.com/story/byjus-silencing-of-online-dissent/"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-weight: 400">business
practices</span></a><span
style="font-weight: 400"> are being adopted?
What </span><a
href="https://the-ken.com/story/exposing-edtechs-vanity-metrics"
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style="font-weight: 400">alternatives</span></a><span
style="font-weight: 400"> should the state
promote? Is there any evidence that billions
of dollars being spent by Indian parents is
</span><a
href="https://the-ken.com/story/edtech-wont-take-the-dipstick"
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style="font-weight: 400">leading to any
outcomes</span></a><span
style="font-weight: 400">?</span></p>
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