DEATH OF ACADEMIC DISCOURCES

Why is Indian academy dead in the knowledge creation? Why most of the academicians look at you very peculiarly the moment when you talk about knowledge creation in India? Why teachers and research scholars from the Science background became unscientific, irrationals, superstitious, dependents, and non-academicians, non-producers, non-meritorious and non-knowledgeable in the academic discourses in the way in which white western Christian Universities are creating knowledge in the scientific knowledge? What made Scientists so unscientific in their daily life of India? What made Social Scientists or Scientists or Mathematicians to behave like a feudal in his/her daily life? Why are the ‘agrarian’ ‘hilly’ ‘women’ ‘untouchables’ ‘business’ ‘politicians’ ‘non-English speaking Brahmins with Indian degrees’ ‘religious scholars’ have became so non-meritorious from the period of Adi-Dravidian/Dravidian/Aryan rule to present day with the exception of British rule in the subcontinent i.e 1858 to 1947? What made these communities so weak and inferiors in the knowledge creation? Why Asian or African race is so inferiors when we look at their IQ levels or having very poor skills in academic or knowledge discourses when we compare with white western Christian societies? Of course there are few exceptional cases individually (Such as internationally renowned Emeritus Professor Romila Thapar or Professor Partha Chatterjee who got western Degrees with other few intellectuals with Indian degrees) but not in group or universities or institutions which are being funded by private or public. I do exempt premier centers like CSDS, CSSS and CSCS which are striving for knowledge creation in India. Why did NO Indian with 6000 years of ‘great’ culture, history, spirituality, purity, have invented/created any theory or machine in any discipline? Why did NO Indian University or Technical institutions or medical institutions never got into the first 1000 places in the knowledge creation? What is the contribution of 6000 years of Indian spirituality which produced manipulators and corrupted? Why did Indians look at the white western Christian Universities for learning?

What is the difference between CSDS, CSSS or CSCS and private or public funding academic institutions in India in the discourses of academics? Why certain group of students from the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) are protesting against a non-meritorious Gajendra Chauhan whom the ‘right wing Hindutva state’ has appointed as its Director? Why not other students from other public or private universities are silence about the non-meritorious teachers and Vice-Chancellors? What is the contribution of FTII to the film industry except producing few elite directors or producers who made movies by copying Hollywood movies or enjoying the popularity through feudal based media? What is the contribution of its alumni to the ‘street theater’ which represent most under-privileged categories? Can any student of any Central/State Universities question the political appointments of non-meritorious Vice-Chancellors by the Center or State governments?

I am deeply getting hurt when I am seeing the existing conditions of State and Central Universities or so-called production centers which have became merely puppets in the hands of political offices or reservations. Recently I have visited a Central University of Hyderabad in South Asia where some caste based students organizations are shouting slogans against the Vice-Chancellor of their university who is politically appointed as a Vice Chancellor of that reputed university which is reputed for its Department of Chemistry.

With curiosity, I started reading wall posters of that particular group of students regarding restriction of their community five Mala (a predominant ‘Untouchable’ caste in the state of Andhra Pradesh in terms of politics, employment and education institutions who joined under the reservations meant for them. They have occupied 15% of reservation meant for ‘Untouchable’ communities. They are predominant in economic prosperity, employment opportunities but except in the knowledge production. They are in the outside of the knowledge production process like their fellow intellectually inferior ‘agrarian’ castes to which this Vice-Chancellor of Hyderabad Central University belongs in South Asia. He is a Kamma by caste which is considered to be an intellectually inferior agricultural community in South Asia) are restricted from the University for the incident in which they have involved in a violence by beating someone who is leading the ‘right wing Hindutva student organization’ to which the current Vice Chancellor is belonged.

These five Mala students are pursuing Ph.D Degrees in various departments or centers so I wanted to know the ‘truth’ of both claims i.e. claims of Mala students regarding political conspiracy to restrict their community students from the university hostels, administration building, and that of claims of University to restrict these Mala students in the name of casteist, anti-nationals, aggressive, violence and non-academics. The Mala Student Organization has come up with new information that the present Vice-Chancellor was the main reason for restricting their community students in a decade ago when he was a Chief Warden. I have enquired the non-Mala students regarding reason for the last time banning the ten Mala Students and banning five Mala students now. They said the same reason that they are most violent and non-academic for both incidents in which same Mala students as well as present Vice Chancellor then the Chief Warden involved.

I have started enquiring about the merit or demerit of the both claims. I have spoken to some 100 students of this University belonged to Integrated, PG, Research degrees from various schools of Sciences, Mathematics, Social Sciences and Humanities. First I had enquired about the Professor Appa Rao who is a Vice Chancellor now about his academic credentials for becoming Vice Chancellor of this University. Every one said the same answer that he is a close ally of the Bharateeya Janata Party (BJP) so that he got lucky to become a Vice Chancellor of this prestigious university like Gajendra Chauhan of FTII who is intellectually inferior but got ‘luck’ to became a head of the institution.

Second enquiry is about Mala students who are active in the caste politics on the campus that most of the students said ‘these Mala students who run caste politics are academically unfit but good at manipulations’. In the both cases of Vice Chancellor or Mala students answer is same i.e both are academically inferiors and good at manipulations. Now we should think about the condition of knowledge creation at the hands of intellectually inferior teachers and research groups.

SAVE THE ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS FROM THE HANDS OF CASTEIST POLITICS AS WELL AS NON-MERITORIOUS VICE CHANCELLORS