My limited point was that we claim that we have a successful two language system while it is more like half language. Of course, a three language system would fare even worse.

Also, see youtu.be/ZQkZLu51OJ8?...

Interesting take…

The inability of so many of our graduates to speak passable English is a failure of our famed “two-language” formula; leave colleges, this skill must have been inculcated during the 12 years of schooling

But yes, for current graduates, something needs to be done. ChatGPT etc is awesome for this too

own talent and *can* develop Chennai to be a world-beating knowledge economy 3/3

If you subscribe to that pov, the natural way to go would be to develop Coimbatore as a “cool” place in both senses of the word.

But an alternative point of view is that TN is not a small state; it has roughly 1% of the world’s population, pretty much the same as Germany. So, we must stand on 2/

Let India be an agglomeration of 28 laboratories; let each state develop its own model of development; some experiments will fail and some succeed; successful experiments will be copied and that is the way to ensure a rising tide of development; not “one India, one xxxx” central dictat

Any book recommendations to understand the life of a common man in South India circa 1500 CE? All aspects including education, society, food, …