Spending just 3.5% of GDP on education, of India’s 1 million schools, most are state-run and sub-standards. Set against this backdrop, a physically handicapped man funds a private school that dishes out scholarship and subsidised fees for the deserving with hope to provide skills to the improvished and dropouts.
Chinese Opera is now an incidental ‘performance’ limited to temple celebrations and festivals associated with the need to appease and honour deities. Stylised language, symbolism and feudal stories performed are irrelevant in today’s context, but the poliferation of gloablisation has brought new entertaintment.