Professor Krishna Kumar, formerly of the Central Institute of Education at Delhi University, is a distinguished theorist of education and prominent commentator on a range of educational issues in India and more widely. From 2005 to 2010, he was the Director of India’s National Council for Educational Research and Training. Appointed to that position by the new Congress-led UPA government shortly after its 2004 electoral victory, Prof. Kumar took charge of an institution widely seen as having been used for political purposes by the preceding BJP-led NDA government.
