Slightly happier.

"India ranked 118th in the World Happiness Report 2025,..up from 126th position in the previous year," but way below China at 68th and even below The State of Palestine at 108th and Pakistan at 109th. DH. It means that we are slightly happier within our misery. Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar remarked, "There is  another new disease among children - that of going abroad." Around 1.3 million students will be studying abroad in 2024 at a cost of $6 billion which could have been used to improve infrastructure in education within India, he said. HT. Children are being forced to go abroad because, "Union Budget 2025-26 allocated Rs 1.28 trillion to the education sector," which is 4.6% of GDP and well below 6% promised in the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. "Over the past decade, India's education spending has hovered between 3% and 4% of GDP." BS. The NEP imposes learning three languages on children, including mother tongue, the official language of the Union, which implies Hindi, and a modern Indian or European language, mostly likely to be English. Tamil Nadu has always been fiercely against the imposition of Hindi. ET. An attempt at politically brain washing our children to erase the unique linguistic and cultural diversity in India. At present around 74% of Indians speak only one language, around 19% are bilingual and 7.1% are multilingual. Hindi is the second language among 44.1% of bilingual people while English is the second language among 26%. In southern states of India, especially in Tamil Nadu, a small minority speaks Hindi, wrote Abhishek Jha. After all that, education does not guarantee a future for our young. "The jobless rate for graduates was 29.1%, almost nine times higher than the 3.4% for those who can't read or write." For those with secondary education the rate was 18.4%, according to an ILO report. BS. Our infrastructure is poor, corruption is endemic, the bureaucracy is obstructive and private education extremely expensive. Advanced economies "offer well-established systems for intellectual property protection, research funding, and career advancement in emerging fields," in addition to little interference from bureaucrats and good salaries, wrote Srinath Sridharan. "As I have estimated, India's GDP can grow in dollar terms at 12% per annum. As professional salaries typically grow 25% more than average GDP growth," and, whereas in the US salaries can grow at 6.25% annually, in 40 years time an Indian professional will earn more than one in the US, according to Krishnamurthy Subarmanian, Executive Director at IMF. Even an ignorant Indian will laugh at this. The reality of India was recorded by 40 students in government-run schools in Tamil Nadu who photographed their parents at work. "From quarry workers to weavers, welders to tailors, the pictures highlight the diverse, backbreaking work undertaken by the estimated 400 million laborers in India." BBC. With so little spending on education where will the government find and pay teachers to teach three languages to 74% of children. Don't waste money on brain washing. Educate.