Abstract: Professor Vikas Sharma is a social writer and he often touches upon social themes. In many of his works, he has attached the theme of class division and the importance of education. In his novel, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, he talks about how class distinction affects the access to higher education. This novel is based in the small town of Panipat. Through a wide range of characters that come from different backgrounds, he talks about the journey of different people who aspire for higher education. He also talks about the difference between characters who choose different paths to fulfill their aspirations of upward mobility. This research paper presents a close analysis of the novel in an attempt to highlight how the lack of educational institutions, financial barriers, and the commodification of education, create impediments for people who come from economically weaker backgrounds. This paper also investigates the rule of education as a tool of aspiration and also as a marker of privilege and exclusion. Professor Vikas Sharma also throws light on the moral compromises, psychological burdens, and fractured ambitions that arise when education becomes accessible.

Keywords: education, exclusion, infrastructure, development, class differences, intellectual spaces, educational institutions.