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@AudreyTruschke via Twitter It aims to offer guidance to academics “targeted by hate” – specifically those who find themselves “the target or a witness to a Hindu Right assault”. That’s the stated objective of the Hindutva Harassment Field Manual, which was launched on Tuesday by a group of academics in North America who call themselves the South Asian Scholar Activist Collective. “The Hindu right has attacked US-based scholars for the past few decades, attempting to dissuade and discredit academic research, and the assaults have intensified recently,” some members of ...

Revisiting Macaulay’s Children To be Indian, our pursuit of knowledge must be rooted in an appreciation of the values of our 5,000-year civilisation based on interdependent castes and acceptance of the religious in our lives Mohan Ramanan 02 July 2021, Last Updated at 10:32 am outlookindia.com 2021-07-02T10:32:48+05:30 Many years ago I wrote an essay for the titled ‘Macaulay’s Children’. Thirty-five years on, I am pleasantly surprised that I still essentially think the same way. The main ideas of that essay were the need for roots, the English educational system th...

This is with reference to the article ‘Overturning dominant cultures’ (Feb 21) which has put the process of overturning the dominant culture in a nutshell and has recognised English as its most important symbol. For, a language is not a mere medium of communication, but always also contains a particular perspective on the world. However, every language has its own concepts that allow different perspectives on the world. The article has described the process of establishing English and its related dominant culture through colonialism and European and American dominance in the world as an i...

AI Is ‘Moronising’ And ‘Colonising’ Us All Over Again, Says Rajiv Malhotra’s Book  by R Jagannathan - Feb 9, 2021 01:06 PM The cover of Rajiv Malhotra’s book, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds. Snapshot Every policy-maker in India should read Rajiv Malhotra’s book to understand what we are up against and what we need to do to overcome our tech deficits. We don’t have much time to lose. Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds. Rajiv Malhotra. Rupa Publications India. 2021. Page 520. Rs 450. One ...

The writer is an advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Last week the federal government, as well as the governments of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, issued identical directives applicable to all public and private schools from the next academic year as regards teaching in grades one to five. Directives that will regulate teaching in the higher grades are expected soon enough. These directives require all schools to teach from textbooks prescribed by the state as model textbooks. Other textbooks that realize the objectives of the Single National Curriculum (SNC) may be used only after ap...