Yamini Aiyar Schools Us on Education Policy in India

Today my guest is Yamini Aiyar , who is currently a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia at Brown University and the author of the recent book Lessons in State Capacity from Delhi's Schools . Her main research interests are contemporary politics, state capacity, welfare policy, and federalism. We talked about the challenges of education policy and welfare in India, the lack of agency experienced by school administrators and teachers, the role of local governments in education, Delhi's experiment with education reforms, portable benefits and school vouchers, and much more. Recorded July 16th, 2025. Read a full transcript enhanced with helpful links. Connect with Ideas of India

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Yamini Aiyar Schools Us on Education Policy in India is an episode from Ideas of India by Shruti Rajagopalan.

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This episode was published on Aug 14, 2025.

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