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"Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of cultural capital is a useful entry point: elite schools transmit not just knowledge, but styles, habits, manners, networks, and legitimacy. The “premium” in such schools lies less in marginal improvements in test scores than in embedding a student in elite habitus: peer networks, brand prestige, and social signaling."

The times have changed.

My school fee was 35 rs/month. The value behind Uniform was to ensure equality. No rich or poor gap or upper lower caste gap should be visible. It was like a Gopal Kaala. Its public education for you. It served India okay.

In the 21st century, would I dare to send my child to a public school? Even the CBSE schools also are seen as lower class schools in Delhi. Their condition is not envious. There are very few good exceptions.

Parents tend to want Cambridge curriculum, not CBSE ke NCERTs. After summer vacation, international trips and not mamaka gaon are discussed by children in 8th standard.

All of this is passe. It is so 2010s. Now in 2025, another trend has come. And this newest trend started by the class of parents who became rich after 1991 in LPG. They now aspire to send their wards to the New age British boarding schools.

See these two articles

https://theprint.in/ground-reports/new-british-boarding-schools-latest-accessory-indias-rich/2753964/?amp

https://www.brhat.in/dhiti/inside-the-gilded-classroom-how-imported-boarding-schools-are-redrawing-india-s-educational-map

Its a major trend now. In almost every Indian state there are dozens of such european run/owned boarding schools have opened up in last 5 years. Their allure is bewitching.

They don't teach the values of nationalism. They prefer cosmopolitanism. They don't teach equality and compassion but prefer elitism. Their mile sur mera tumhara song is not about Kashmiri, Telugu, Bengali and Tamil, it is about French, American, German and Spanish.

And we in UPSC preparation keep debating the NEP2020. Its only for us middle/lower class. The rich have bypassed the debate on NEP and they don't bother about the politics of text book revision.

In next 10 years these people will define our youth. And 20 years they will run India. That is, if they stay in India, of course. Otherwise Indian elite appears to have forsaken Indian future largely now.

Kalay Tasmai Namah.

- Nikhil
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