Author Journal · 2 September 2026

The Second Classroom: How Private Tuition, Coaching and the Race for Marks Remade Indian Education

A research-driven narrative-nonfiction project on private tuition, coaching, examinations, aspiration, inequality, EdTech and AI in post-Independence India.

The project treats supplementary education as a social history of aspiration and insecurity, grounded particularly in West Bengal and eastern India while tracing a national story.

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