The mess we are in

there are around 50 million children not attending primary school in South Asia. And of those who do go to school, 60 million drop out each year. Welcome to South Asia: the most illiterate region of the world. Excluding Sri Lanka and Maldives, the rest of the region stands nowhere when it comes to education. With about 400 million illiterate adults, nearly one-half of the world total are in South Asia. But things are changing. Here, the goal of achieving universal primary education for all within half a decade is no longer a utopian vision