Demystifying Dr. Bhupen Hazarika: Envisioning Education for India

Countries do well that give priority to the education of its people. In the course of India’s economic expansion she encounters the rise of fierce competition eroding wealth creation and jobs. With exclusivity and boom slipping away, India’s need for a broad educational reform becomes even more acute. Sixty year ago Dr. Bhupen Hazarika (1926-2011), a gifted Indian singer song-writer and film-maker envisioned and wrote his own recommendations to speed up education in India. In this book... Dr. Bhupen Hazarika’s Answer: Lessons from the renowned singer's thesis and its application to modern India This contains the complete reproduction of his 1952 thesis with background material making it an informative book about Dr. Bhupen Hazarika’s educational legacy. “On The Free Flow of Ideas Since one of the fundamental purposes of education is to transmit culture, educators have a solemn duty to explore all the channels for transmitting it. As raising the intellectual level of the masses is one of the primary obligations of the democratic constitution, the time has come to utilize all the possible media of communicating significant ideas to India's teeming millions who are devoid of letters”. —Bhupendra Kumar Hazarika from his doctoral thesis titled Proposal for Preparing India’s Basic Educators to use Audio-Visual Techniques in Adult Education, completed at Columbia University, NY, in 1952