the pernicious identity politics the state and its holy allies encourage .”..
The deviousness of Indian ideologues is their blatant attempt depending on which ideology they prescribe to manipulate all machinations of education systems , As been the case with Karnataka state , the government of Karnataka has been accused of giving a pro-majoritarian slant to social science study for children in higher primary and secondary school children .
Pulpare Balakrishnanan writing in The Hindu – February 4 2012 – talks on how regulatory mechanism of state have killed creativity and encouraged the kind of political mind game the politically influential play upon the young minds , He writes “ Among recognized publications , there are no place for books considered an important part of an academic ’ s accomplishment globally , and the expected teaching load is outrageous . Summary quantitative indicators , adopted in the name of objectivity , kill creativity and encourage the mediocre . Actually they are only the thin edge of the wedge in the progression , and bode ominously for future of India . Imagine an India without an Amartya sen , a Romila thapar or Venky – Ramakrishnan . The current system of governing the production of knowledge in our higher education system has come close to delivering precisely this outcome . It may be claimed that too few among India ’ s academics have protested . But this proof that deathly arrangement devised to govern our institutions of higher learning has actually succeeded . The rules on recruitment and appraisal of faculty need to be publicly reviewed by an independent panel of citizens before it can do further harm .”
The recent controversy over three Karnataka state ministers sitting in the legislature session - discussing drought conditions in northern part of the state – watching porn on their mobiles , show the absolute lack of responsibility of the policy makers and the politicians who claim to represent . Indeed the call for decentralized gram sabha ( Village Level Governance Bodies ) levels arrangements which replace the incumbent representative form of government looks very attractive . However the possibility of hijacking of the gram sabha by selfrighteous traditionalists and revivalists would only defeat the purpose of modernization and sabotage the dispersal of wealth and prosperity and limit the spread of political power to the assertive and well organized leaving the minorities and dalits to play second fiddle to the resurgent backward castes and their upper caste allies . That again is not the reason for Indian Union to have been envisioned .
Courtesy – The Hindu { Praveen Swami ; Ravinder Kaur ; Palapre Balakrishnan ; Vidya Subramaniam }
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