Originally posted by: AubodroKhargosh
I think what happened was, both Dev and Neha were going to school when Devs dad was alive.
Once he died Neha was made to stay home and look after Riya and Nikki who were too small for school
Because Dev is said to be 28 I think and Nikki is in college so 18-19
almost a 10 year difference
and I think Dev started doing a job after school soon.
Maybe Riya and Nikki joined school a year or two late?
It is a bit confusing but since they were small it was easier to put them in their respective year age wise and they caught up
but Neha had missed a lot so had no option to study ahead later once they had money
Dev was 8 when his dad passed away. I think it makes more sense if Ishwari was pregnant with Nikki at the time. Nikki was still in college (bachelor's if I am not wrong) in S1. So the age difference doesn't make sense unless we consider the scenario above.
That would mean an age gap of 9 years between Dev and Nikki.
Let's consider Riya to be an year or two older than Nikki. So both of them were too small for school at the time.
Assuming both of them started first standard when they were 6, that still leaves 4 years between their father's passing and them starting school.
As you said, Dev would have started working by then so they would have had enough extra cash to send them to a government school.
Poor Neha would have already missed most of her primary school by then. Maybe she resumed her studies at a Hindi-medium school later? She doesn't seem to be illiterate - just not fluent in English.
Also one thing that I wonder about is how any 28 year old head a large organization. A startup maybe. But a mobile company (manufacturing requires a lot of upfront capital investment!)??
I think Dev started with an older partner when he was still in college (has to be IIT Delhi, lol). Later, after they had secured enough investment, the Partner left for greener pastures and Dev took over. Can't think of any other plausible explanation.