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Can I say this one more time?? We do not want everyone to be a STEM major, but lack of interest in STEM fields indicates some serious problems with our K-12 education that instill fear instead of curiosity in our children.
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India After Gandhi
When I think about Indian history I think about our struggle for independence, Gandhi, Nehru, Sardar, etc. and I think about partition. I have never known or read anything about post Indian independence or about India's growth. So when 2 years ago I heard Ramchandra Guha talk about his book "India After Gandhi" I knew I wanted to read that book. Other contenders to this book were some Shashi Tharoor titles, but I knew for sure that Tharoor is a Congress loyalist and the titles seemed to be about modern India. So I decided to wait on his titles and instead went with Guha's book. I had no idea that I had hit a bull's eye with this choice. The author says that for Indian historians, India's history ends at partition and independence. When I read that line, I remembered all the books that I had read, even those by British authors. None of them went beyond independence. Maybe a play on Gandhi's assassination. But that's about it. So, hopefully this book wil