Indian School Series
Hinglish

The emphasis on learning English in Indian schools.

“Indian School” follows a remarkable year in one of the world’s fastest growing cities - Pune near Mumbai.
Two of Pune’s schools take us into the world of India’s “rising generation”.
The series gets inside the skin of India’s middle classes, exploring their dreams and anxieties in a world that seems to be changing every day.
Indian School focuses on the lives of pupils and teachers in two very different private schools.
In this episode, the English medium school of Kalmadi is hosting its annual literary week.
The emphasis in this school is on English from the moment the children enrol at the age of three.
Fifteen-year-old boys Prem and Sahil wrestle with what it means to be Indian as they prepare for the inter-school debate competition. The topic: has globalisation contributed to India losing its cultural identity if it ever has?
In the same school, for dinner-lady Mundha Shetty, the best perk of her job is to be able to send her two children aged 11 and 13 to the school free of charge.
When Mundha’s husband died, leaving her to bring up her two young children alone, head teacher Madhavi Kapur made the generous offer to waive the school’s fees for young Swapnil and Vishaka.
And it has been very rewarding, since the children do very well at school and even help their mother with learning English.