Yamini Aiyar

This is the first part of a conversation between Yamini Aiyar and Rahul Mukhopadhyay. It takes Aiyar’s recent book ‘Lessons in State Capacity from Delhi’s Schools’ as a starting point. The conversation explores her in-depth experience of working with the education administration system and shares the insights this experience has for civil society organizations (CSOs).

This is the third part of a conversation between Yamini Aiyar and Rahul Mukhopadhyay. It takes Aiyar’s recent book ‘Lessons in State Capacity from Delhi’s Schools’ as a starting point. In this part of the conversation, drawing on Delhi’s school reforms, she reflects on how civil society organizations and education bureaucracies can collaborate more effectively. She highlights the challenges of translating reform ideas into practice and argues for cultivating ‘interstitial spaces’ of dialogue, trust, and sustained engagement to enable meaningful institutional change.

This is the fourth and final part of a conversation between Yamini Aiyar and Rahul Mukhopadhyay. It takes Aiyar’s recent book ‘Lessons in State Capacity from Delhi’s Schools’ as a starting point. In this part of the conversation, drawing on Delhi’s school reforms, she reflects on constraints, patchwork change, cognitive dissonance, and the need for sustained dialogue among parents, teachers, policymakers, and civil society to enable meaningful educational transformation.

This is the second part of a conversation between Yamini Aiyar and Rahul Mukhopadhyay. It takes Aiyar’s recent book ‘Lessons in State Capacity from Delhi’s Schools’ as a starting point. The conversation explores her in-depth experience of working with the education administration system in government schools and shares the insights this experience has for civil society organizations (CSOs).