India’s brightest students are failing not because they lack intelligence — but because they are being taught in the wrong language.

A panel of scientists, educators, and policy thinkers convene to dismantle the English-medium education myth that has governed India since independence. Moderator Prof. Yogananda opens with two precise anecdotes: Satyendranath Bose’s judgment that a doctoral candidate who couldn’t teach quantum mechanics in Bengali simply didn’t know the subject — and an International Maths Olympiad student who solved a combinatorics problem correctly the moment he was allowed to write in Hindi. Dr. Aravind adds lived evidence: teaching quantum physics in Punjabi produced five times the student engagement, and allowing questions in local dialects opened the classroom further still. He coins the concept of “language of early environment” — arguing that cognitive access, not ethnicity, determines which language unlocks learning.

The sharpest testimony comes from a former Microsoft engineer who spent 35 years abroad. He systematically demolishes the English delusion with global data: Israel’s Technion ranks above Indian IITs and teaches entirely in Hebrew; China’s DeepSeek principal researcher is a village woman with zero English; a non-verbal IQ test in a Haryana village found 33% of children above the 90th percentile, yet most drop out after 8th grade because of English. He closes with a three-step policy call — abolish ICSE, return CBSE to its original mandate, and affiliate every school with the local state board.

About the Speakers:
C S Yogananda – Founder, Sanatan Sampatti Foundation
Sankrant Sanu -Founder, Garuda Publication
Dr. Arvind -Professor, Physical Sciences, IISER Mohali
Dr. V Ramanathan – Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT-BHU