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College

Pathways of Possibility

Saikat Majumdar
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What are the avenues of postsecondary educational experience available to the student in India today?

Can college education be tailored to one’s specific talents and meaningful to the world at the same time?

Is there indeed such a thing as native intelligence? What is the ideal education to bring such intelligences to life?

What are the possible curricular relationships between the arts and the sciences; the qualitative and the quantitative, the theoretical and the experiential?

How deeply should a college education be rooted in a discipline? Should one cultivate one disciplinary strength or multiple ones?

What is more valued by employers – depth or range?

College provides accessible answers to these questions that resonates on a wide range of life aspirations, guiding students to the possibilities contained in the rapidly changing realm of higher education across the world today. It is an erudite and interesting guide to the possibilities contained in the rapidly changing realm of higher education today.

It is essential reading for current and future college students, their parents, educators and anybody interested in the rich potential in the terrain of post-secondary education in post-millennial India.

Imprint: Vintage Books

Published: Apr/2026

ISBN: 9780143479628

Length : 128 Pages

MRP : ₹499.00

College

Pathways of Possibility

Saikat Majumdar

What are the avenues of postsecondary educational experience available to the student in India today?

Can college education be tailored to one’s specific talents and meaningful to the world at the same time?

Is there indeed such a thing as native intelligence? What is the ideal education to bring such intelligences to life?

What are the possible curricular relationships between the arts and the sciences; the qualitative and the quantitative, the theoretical and the experiential?

How deeply should a college education be rooted in a discipline? Should one cultivate one disciplinary strength or multiple ones?

What is more valued by employers – depth or range?

College provides accessible answers to these questions that resonates on a wide range of life aspirations, guiding students to the possibilities contained in the rapidly changing realm of higher education across the world today. It is an erudite and interesting guide to the possibilities contained in the rapidly changing realm of higher education today.

It is essential reading for current and future college students, their parents, educators and anybody interested in the rich potential in the terrain of post-secondary education in post-millennial India.

Buying Options
Paperback / Hardback

Saikat Majumdar

Saikat Majumdar is the author of four novels: Silverfish, The Firebird/Play House, The Scent of God, acclaimed as one of the major queer novels to come out of India following the decriminalization of homosexuality, and most recently, The Middle Finger, a contemporary college campus novel that seeks to retell ancient myths.

He has also published nonfiction and criticism, including the book Prose of the World, College: Pathways of Possibility—a widely read book on liberal education in India. He is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Ashoka University and was a Fellow at the Wellesley College Humanities Center and the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study in South Africa.

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