The importance of not being earnest

• Verfasst von: Chakrabarty, Bidyut [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The importance of not being earnest
• Titelzusatz: a memoir
• Verf.angabe: Bidyut Chakrabarty
• Verlagsort: Chennai ; Berlin ; Bruxelles ; Lausanne ; New York ; Oxford
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: xii, 340 Seiten
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-80374-625-8
• Schlagwörter: (p)Chakrabarty, Bidyut
• Schlagwörter: (p)Chakrabarty, Bidyut
• Dokumenttyp: Autobiografie
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Chakrabarty, Bidyut, 1958-: Importance of not being earnest. - Oxford : Peter Lang Publishing, 2024 |(DLC)2024031362
• K10plus-PPN: 1897965206

Abstract

"This biographical account situates the unfolding of the life of an educator in varied socio-economic contexts. It is not just a narrative of how an individual evolves but also analyses how a particular mindset develops by being dialectically entwined with the milieu in which one passes different stages of their life. At one level, it is a historical narrative since it deals with a particular period of human history critical to the growth of a specific individual. At another, it provides ethnographic inputs to those who want to understand the peculiarities of the twentieth century. It offers first-hand accounts of the nature of transformative politics which evolved at the behest of Naxalites in India; it also has obvious twists and turns as the individual is exposed to a world beyond India. So, the narrative is individualistic, and it has elements of influences acquired through exposure to an alien socio-cultural milieu. Apart from its analytical importance, this memoir provides a very realistic assessment of India's education system through the lens of an educator and an academician"--