Rajdeep Mahanta

A student of Department of History,(North campus), Delhi University( 2025-27)
Topics of History, politics , society, economics is all what enthuse me

[Rajdeep Mahanta @Mahant20Raj]

@Memeghnad While we all might be laughing at this( it's really difficult not to do so), but I feel it calls for a deeper inspection: the lack of political awareness and understanding among youth and their complacency towards it... This should worry everyone of us right thinking Indians

[Rajdeep Mahanta @Mahant20Raj]

@Amockx2022 After all, caste location provides you with Social privilege, a very essential part of which is this confidence, as most people you talk to, those in positions of power and authority come from the broadly same socio-political location like you.

[Rajdeep Mahanta @Mahant20Raj]

@puru_ag Wish you a very happy birthday, Professor

[Rajdeep Mahanta @Mahant20Raj]

@Ram_Guha Truly so. May Prof Sarkar's soul rest in peace as his ideas and research continue to live among us, be debated and engaged with by generations of scholars. Collection of some of his best work, 'Essays of a lifetime' shall remain a remarkable work in modern social history

[Ramachandra Guha @Ram_Guha]

Professor Sumit Sarkar was that rara avis, an outstanding scholar who was also a very fine human being. Though I was never his student, my understanding of Indian history was deeply shaped by his books “The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal”, “Writing Social History”, and especially “Modern India: 1885-1947”. Then there are his brilliant Deuskar lectures, “Popular Movements and Middle-Class Leadership in Late Colonial India”, reprinted by Permanent Black in their edition of his “Uncollected Writings”. His work influenced generations of historians both in India and overseas, and will live on long after his passing.

[ravish kumar @ravish_journo]

मुझे प्रो सरकार की क्लास में होने का मौका मिला था। पूरी क्लास भरी होती थी। कभी प्रोफेसर की तरह नहीं आए। हमेशा संकोची और सवालों से घिरे छात्र की तरह क्लास में आया करते थे। अपनी क्लास के आगे विनम्रता से खड़े हो जाते। इतिहास का कैनवस गहरा होता जाता था, विद्वता के प्रवाह के बीच व्यंग्य के छोटे-मोटे पड़ाव से अचानक पता कर लेते थे कि क्लास का ध्यान है या नहीं। ध्यान हटा तो व्यंग्य भी मिस किया और लेक्चर भी। सुमित धीरे बोलते थे। जानकारी का रेंज हिमालय की तरह फैला हुआ था तब भी ख़ुद को कभी थोपा नहीं। हाव-भाव से पता नहीं लगने दिया कि हम एक महान इतिहासकार की कक्षा में बैठे हैं। जिनकी कक्षा से निकल कर पहले ही कई छात्र बड़े इतिहासकार बन चुके थे और हमारी कक्षा के बाद के कई छात्र बड़े इतिहासकार बने। सुमित
पढ़ाने के तरीके में गांधीवादी थे। लोकतांत्रिक। सुमित का छात्र होना ही मेडल के जैसा था। डीयू में सुमित, सुनील, ज्ञान और शाहिद की क्लास का छात्र होना छात्र जीवन की यादों को
सुखद बनाता था। देश ने एक शानदार इतिहासकार के साथ साथ बेहतरीन टीचर खोया है। ज्ञान के असीम भंडार के साथ धीरे-धीरे चलता हुआ, रोज़ पढ़ाने वाला प्यारा सा टीचर खोया है। छात्र जीवन में ऐसा शिक्षक हर किसी को मिले। उनकी समृद्ध अकादमिक जीवन यात्रा को सलाम।

[Rajdeep Mahanta @Mahant20Raj]

Go well Prof Sarkar. From his rethinking of Rammohun Roy to swadeshi movement to a nuanced understanding of the nationalist movement and Gandhi, to his contributions to Subaltern studies and then critique and study of the decline of subaltern studies,will be ever remembered.

[Ashok Kumar Pandey अशोक اشوک @Ashok_Kashmir]

मैं पहले दिन से कह रहा था कि मुख्यमंत्री हेमंत सोरेन को जाकर बातचीत करनी चाहिए छात्रों से।

लेकिन अंततः उन्होंने भी लाठी का रास्ता चुना। यह पूरी तरह से ग़लत है, अक्षम्य है।

आपसे लोकतांत्रिक होने की उम्मीद थी
आपने तानाशाही दिखाई

[The Lallantop @TheLallantop]

ये सिर्फ़ एक छात्रा की कहानी नहीं, बल्कि झारखंड के हज़ारों युवाओं की आवाज़ है. रांची में चल रहे JPSC और JSSC आंदोलन के बीच छात्रा ने अपनी पीड़ा, संघर्ष और टूटते हुए सपनों को खुलकर बयां किया. उसकी बातें सुनकर हर अभ्यर्थी का दर्द महसूस होगा.

Full Report: https://t.co/YWzXoCThbw

@vikasvermaindia @hemraj____

[Manish Tewari @ManishTewari]

When Institutions get paralysed nations wither away.

That is what history teaches us .

[Keshav Bedi @keshavbedi]

The whole nation should HANG ITS HEAD IN SHAME for TERRORISING a 15 year old MINOR child to issue an apology over camera to WHOLE NATION for something that GROWN-UP adults do DAILY in this country WITH IMPUNITY.

Instead of REPRIMANDING his THUGS who DOXXED her, OPENLY INCITED MOBS TO THREATEN her for doing a NON CRIMINAL ACT, Modi comes and says I FORGIVE YOU ALL. EFFING SHAMELESS. NATIONAL EMBARRASSMENT.

[Añj @MsAnjaliRB]

Adult women don’t need your moral policing. They aren’t your daughters. Men abused you too, yet your boring asf lecture was reserved for women. Whenever women step outside your patriarchal, nationalist idea of how they should behave, you label it a “cultural crisis.”

[Urvish Kothari ~ उर्वीश कोठारी @urvish2020]

The pasting of photos of protesting young girls on channels/social media and hounding them is the real face of this PM-HM & their ecosystem that includes Godi Media and other hyenas.
This govt has totally lost it.

[Priyanka Chaturvedi🇮🇳 @priyankac19]

This is so cool! GenZ is cooking BJP IT cell and how!

[Maheshwer Peri @maheshperi]

After decades, the conversation is about education and reforms. It will be a travesty if this stops with the resignation of a minister. Families spend 20% of their income educating their children. But once in government, the same people cannot find even 4% for education. Education is a priority when the child is ours—and expendable when the child is someone else’s.

Look at where we have fallen in the last decade:

1. Between 2004–05 and 2013–14, India’s education budget rose from ₹13,098 crore to ₹71,059 crore, recording a CAGR of 21%. In contrast, between 2014–15 and 2023–24, it increased from ₹68,874 crore to ₹1,23,357 crore, but at a much slower CAGR of just 7%. School education growth fell sharply from 22% to 5%, while higher education growth declined from 19% to 10%.

2. Between 2004–14 and 2014–24, total revenue expenditure—excluding interest and grants—rose from ₹57.95 lakh crore to ₹155.57 lakh crore. However, education expenditure increased from only ₹4.05 lakh crore to ₹8.38 lakh crore, causing education’s share of revenue expenditure to fall from 6.98% to 5.39%.

3. Between 2014 and 2024, government colleges grew from 7885 to 7994, a growth of just 1%. In the same period, private colleges went up from 21,750 to 32,513, a growth of 49%. Including the Private aided colleges (which grew at 24%), the total growth has been 35%. Sadly, the growth of government colleges has been by accident and not by design.

4. Similarly, enrolment also took a turn for the worse. Students enrolling in a public institution grew by 21% (134 lacs to 163 Lacs) while those into private grew by 42% (182 lacs t0 357 Lacs).

5. We are closing 25 schools a day. Between 2014 and 2023, India’s population grew by over 12 crore, or 9.3%. Yet, during roughly the same period, the number of government schools declined by 89,441, or 8%.

6. School education is effectively killed and replaced by an entrance exam or a competitive exam. For Ex: CUET is the most useless exam that has been imposed on students in Delhi. Even a topper from Delhi cannot get a seat to study in any college in Delhi unless the student appears for CUET. And every entrance exam is against equity as only those who can afford coaching or have access to coaching succeed. The public schools are death a death blow.

7. Between 2014 and 2026, IIT tuition increased by 122%, At IIM Ahmedabad, the two-year programme fee rose by about 66%, NID and NLU fees also rose substantially by two to three times.

8. While India is seeking its Indian origin scientists working abroad to return back to India, our own research fellowships have been disbanded. The KVPY gave way to INSPIRE Scholarships. In the current year, there are no budgetary allocations for INSPIRE fellowships too.

9. The fees in Private colleges has grown beyond means of most Indians. NEET as an exam is a competition for just about 30,000 Government Medical College seats in the open category! The other 70,000 private seats are a ‘reservation for the rich’ where just about 1% of India can afford to pay the 1.25 Crores fees. All Private colleges cost about 5X to 10X of public institutions.

10. While the Government announced an additional 9911 seats for the current year with much fanfare, only 2400 are in public institutions. 78% of them are in private space and outside the reach of the common man.

11. As per Economic Survey 2025-26 report,
a. 56.2% of professor posts in central universities and other HEIs remain vacant (as on 31-01-2025)
b. 75% of HEIs lack industry readiness
c. About 2 crore adolescents (14-18 years) are out of school.

12. While we have a GER target that is much touted, what we have done is to reduce GER at secondary stage, which is at 68.5% (against NEP target of 100% by 2030). Nearly one third of children are outside the education system, the stage (class 9 to 12) that determines employability and higher education participation.

This conversation took decades coming. I do hope that we don’t stop with the resignation of a minister and demand bigger reforms. This is an opportunity that India cannot let go. This is important to every student, every parent, every young person and to our nation, INDIA.

[Urvish Kothari ~ उर्वीश कोठारी @urvish2020]

Next demand: an open press conference of the PM.
The least a PM of a democratic country can and must do.

[Javed Akhtar @Javedakhtarjadu]

Vinash kaale vipreet Buddhi !!

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

I am relieved that Sonam @Wangchuk66 has ended his fast and I wish him a full and speedy recovery. His extraordinary sacrifice has helped bring national attention to a crisis that should never have been ignored.

But let us be clear: the end of a hunger strike is not the end of this struggle. The fight for a fair, transparent and accountable education system continues. The students who have raised their voices deserve justice, not silence.

As I have said before, I will continue to echo their voice wherever I can: in the media, in Parliament, and on every democratic platform available to me. Our institutions must listen, because democracy is strongest when it responds to the hopes and concerns of its young people.

[Rajdeep Mahanta @Mahant20Raj]

@BeingSalmanKhan Why is it that almost everyone Bollywood projected as villains on the screen turns out to be real-life heroes, when the need be and the 'heroes' turn out to be... (You know better)

[Rajdeep Mahanta @Mahant20Raj]

@amitvarma The problem now is the deep polarization, with one side aiming to further limit and bulldoze even the limited rights, while the other side is hell bent on worshipping the Constitution and it's provisions as a hold book. None of the option's enviable, to say the least

[Priya Purohit @Priyaa_Purohit]

BOLD STATEMENT : I don't want to die before I actually die. 🔥

Journalist : During Anna Hazare's protest, we saw Aamir Khan, Anupam Kher, Amitabh Bachchan and many other actors speaking up.

Why is no one coming forward for Sonam Wangchuk and CJP protest ?

Prakash Raj : They scared. We stand with the truth. We are not afraid to stand by what's right.