So?

What are kids taught in school today? Isn’t there an alternative to academia, if not for 12 years, atleast for one month?

Television, our nations serial killer. School-kids today are exposed to a very jaded Western world, a facebook-world of pixels lacking any sense of real experience. Do they know how majority of India lives? Do they know how happy this majority is? Yes, happy. The urban mindset is the one that needs to mature. This kind of convergence will help in bringing together two people who couldn’t be more different from one another - the city boy who gets entertainment from Dhoom 2 and the tea-pickers son who runs in the fields barefoot, unafraid, happy. And they will get along because everything will be a surprise, there is almost no common ground.