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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Jwala - The Flame That Builds a NationA father's conversations with his children about India's futureIt started, as the best questions always do, with something a nine-year-old wasn't supposed to ask.In a Moscow winter, thousands of miles from home, Sasha and Jo - eleven and nine, endlessly curious, allergic to easy answers - cornered their father with the kind of question no parent can answer in one sentence: why isn't India the country it should be?He didn't have a quick answer. So he gave them a long one - back through the knowledge civilizations of ancient India, forward through classrooms today, government schools and coaching centers, and the arrival of AI and what it means for a generation of Indian kids about to compete for jobs that don't fully exist yet. Somewhere in that journey came the questions every Indian has learned to live with instead of asking out loud: Why does a "free" education still cost a family everything? Why don't the country's best minds want to teach? Why does effort so rarely feel like enough?Jwala isn't a policy book, and it doesn't pretend to have all the answers - that's rather the point. It's a father discovering, one impossible question at a time, that his kids might be onto something: a nation doesn't move forward by getting better at answering the questions it already knows how to ask. It moves forward when it's brave enough to ask better ones.Part memoir, part reckoning with a civilization's unfinished promise, told entirely through the relentless curiosity of two kids who haven't yet learned which questions you're supposed to stop asking - this is a book for the Indian parent raising the next generation, the diaspora explaining home from a distance, and every young Indian who has wondered the same thing and never quite said it out loud.The questions come first. The answers come next - in Part Two. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Jwala - The Flame That Builds a NationA father's conversations with his children about India's futureIt started, as the best questions always do, with something a nine-year-old wasn't supposed to ask.In a Moscow winter, thousands of miles from home, Sasha and Jo - eleven and nine, endlessly curious, allergic to easy answers - cornered their father with the kind of question no parent can answer in one sentence: why isn't India the country it should be?He didn't have a quick answer. So he gave them a long one - back through the knowledge civilizations of ancient India, forward through classrooms today, government schools and coaching centers, and the arrival of AI and what it means for a generation of Indian kids about to compete for jobs that don't fully exist yet. Somewhere in that journey came the questions every Indian has learned to live with instead of asking out loud: Why does a "free" education still cost a family everything? Why don't the country's best minds want to teach? Why does effort so rarely feel like enough?Jwala isn't a policy book, and it doesn't pretend to have all the answers - that's rather the point. It's a father discovering, one impossible question at a time, that his kids might be onto something: a nation doesn't move forward by getting better at answering the questions it already knows how to ask. It moves forward when it's brave enough to ask better ones.Part memoir, part reckoning with a civilization's unfinished promise, told entirely through the relentless curiosity of two kids who haven't yet learned which questions you're supposed to stop asking - this is a book for the Indian parent raising the next generation, the diaspora explaining home from a distance, and every young Indian who has wondered the same thing and never quite said it out loud.The questions come first. The answers come next - in Part Two. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…