You Are Not Your Marks: How Competition Broke Indian Education, and We Rebuild It

Every year, millions of Indian children are told the same lie: that a single number decides their worth.By Class 6, they trade the classroom for the coaching centre. By eighteen, one exam will rank them for life. And when the rank doesn't come, too many conclude there is nothing left to be.But what if the problem was never the child - and always the system?You Are Not Your Marks is a clear-eyed look at how competition broke Indian education: the coaching factories, the rote learning that kills curiosity, the handful of premium institutes that left everything else behind, and a human cost we have stopped counting. It is also a way out - a practical blueprint to rebuild learning around curiosity, capability, and a life worth living.For every student who has felt like a failure, every parent who has worried late into the night, and every teacher and policymaker who knows we can do better, one truth runs through these pages: a child is always so much more than a mark.