The volume, spread over fifteen chapters written by two authors argues that while growth is often viewed as a top-down approach, any attempt at landscaping languages, culture, and education must follow a bottom-up procedure. The idea is to opt for a plan based on a collective project of Utopography to create a speculative landscape that not only escapes from time, death and judgment, but which outlines a society that becomes a matter of a synthetic construction. The chapters consider the two views towards the heterogeneous space dotted by linguistic and cultural majorities and minorities living together for a long time. The book discusses the competition between the majority and minority linguistic groups, whether there has been a change in India after 1947, and what drove the forces of change. In universal education, where we stepped off the path and landed ourselves in the tangle of un-education is discussed. They argue that the quick-fix solution to all divergences and an over-emphasis on the uniform westernization model led to the 'breakdowns of modernization' in developing countries such as India. Even as this depressing situation needs to be changed, one notices a positive encouragement to the plural ethos in planning for education now through a set of organized state interventions.
Udaya Narayana Singh (1951) a Sahitya Akademi awardee poet, playwright, and critic in Maithili and Bangla, and a linguist and translation theoretician, is currently a Chair-Professor and Dean (Arts), Amity University Haryana. He was the Director of CIIL, Mysore, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. Singh had set up the National Translation Mission and taught at the Universities of Hyderabad, Delhi, South Gujarat, and MSU-Baroda. With seven collections of poems in Maithili and Bangla, six essays, twelve plays, he translated many and published 250 research papers and created 545 documentaries on language, literature, and culture of Bangla, Tamil, Kannada and Marathi. He was a poet- invitee at the Frankfurt Book Fair (2006), London Book Fair (2009), and Leader of Cultural Delegation of Writers to China (2007), and visited and lectured in many countries.
Rajarshi Singh (1984) is currently Director, Program at the People's Action for Learning (or PAL) Network, based out of Kenya. He focuses on leveraging data to improve outcomes, designs, and processes of development programs. He has managed Monitoring and Evaluation and research projects related to education, agriculture, sanitation, governance, and women empowerment across Kenya, Sierra Leone, Nepal, and India for clients such as the World Bank, INGOs, governments, and USAID. His interests also include social and cultural research vis-à-vis education and creative writing. His publications include six creative works (poetry collections and screenplays), two book chapters, and many articles in international journals. He holds a Ph.D. in computational mechanics from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, and had done his undergraduate studies at the University of Arizona at Tucson, USA.
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