For this Independence Day, I have written a long 7000-word essay on Thomas Macaulay as the reigning influence on Indian education 70 years after the British left.
http://www.caravanmagazine.in/reviews-essays/biography-macaulay-unwritten-tell-us
http://www.caravanmagazine.in/reviews-essays/biography-macaulay-unwritten-tell-us