Teaching And Research – The Rot That Has Set In
Recently HRD Minister Prakash Javdekar stoked a controversy by saying that college teachers and professors would no longer be ‘assessed on research for promotion’. He said that they would be assessed ‘mainly More...
Indian History in Perspective – 3 : How India Culturalized the World
[contextly_sidebar id=”hMH0TYXI2vzoZgmgYKpOcumlFEl9LJ7s”] In the previous part, we had discussed how Indians had civilized the world. We had talked about how the R1a1a haplogroup (a genetic marker), More...
Indian History in Perspective – 2 : How India Civilized the World
[contextly_sidebar id=”EY9v9asfL16rGvMD95vXlfvw0QQiRTEU”] In the previous part we had discussed how Indians had peopled and colonized the world. We had started out by pointing out the flaws of teaching More...
Continuous, Comprehensive and Cumulative – The Knowledge Tradition of India
What does India have to offer? It is a question which is often put to Indians by a curious visitor. The answer is seldom easy or straight. Indians usually launch into a confused ramble about the ‘diversity’ More...
Propagandizing the Aryan Invasion Debate: A Rebuttal to Tony Joseph
On 16 June 2017, an article appeared on the Hindu titled “How genetics is settling the Aryan migration debate” by Tony Joseph. This article claims that the question of the origin of the Indo-Aryan people has More...
Indian History in Perspective- 1: How India Colonized the World
India is an ancient land. Yet most of our history books do not do any justice to the antiquity of our motherland and focus merely on the political history, especially of the last 1,000 years. Pre-history is considered More...
From NCERT Joke Book: ‘British Became Supreme Power in 1765 Itself’
Most of us very clearly remember how our school history books drilled into our heads that the Mughal empire was succeeded by the British empire. To those whose memories are a bit fuzzy, I have posted a screenshot More...
Looking Back At Linguistic Prejudice Against ‘Hindi Medium’ Prime Minister Modi
Note to the readers: On 26 May 2017, the third anniversary of the Modi Government, PM Modi was in Assam where he inaugurated India’s longest bridge and also laid the foundation for an AIIMS and an AIRI for the More...
Book Review: Brainwashed Republic by Neeraj Atri and Munieshwer A Sagar
Brainwashed Republic by Neeraj Atri and Munieshwer A Sagar has been published by Abhishek Publications and is available on Amazon. The difficult to put down book, ‘Brainwashed Republic’ authored by Neeraj Atri More...
Book Review: The Educational Heritage of Ancient India by Sahana Singh
The Educational Heritage of Ancient India: How an Ecosystem of Learning was Laid to Waste by Sahana Singh is available on Amazon. In her book, The Educational Heritage of Ancient India, Sahana Singh shakes the More...