NEET paper leak reflects a deeper crisis in education and society, says Acharya Prashant ~ The New Indian Express coverage
"(Acharya Prashant) accepted the need for external reform but called it incomplete. ‘By all means fight the wrongdoing in the system; that is your right. But if awareness does not awaken within, then however many changes you bring outside, things will remain just as they were, having only changed their names and forms.’"
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आचार्य प्रशांत ने सोनम वांगचुक से अनशन तोड़ने का किया आग्रह, सरकार से संवाद की अपील की
• दार्शनिक और लेखक आचार्य प्रशांत ने नीट यूजी पेपर लीक और छात्रों की आत्महत्या के बाद खड़े हुए आंदोलन पर बात की। उन्होंने कहा कि यह संकट केवल प्रशासनिक चूक नहीं बल्कि "हमारे शिक्षा तंत्र और समाज के किसी अधिक गहरे संकट का संकेत" है।
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@peeleraja Scientific knowledge can’t counter blind beliefs. Knowledge is ego’s tool. Only the honest enquiry about one’s beliefs, can beat the blindness.
An Open Letter to the Jantar Mantar protestors:
My dear young friends,
I address you today not as a politician or an MP, but as someone deeply troubled by what is happening to your generation of young Indians.
This is personal for me. I was born to a middle-class family: my father was a salaried newspaper employee, my mother a homemaker, with three children to educate on one income. For a family like ours, merit was not a slogan. Scholarships, fair examinations, honest results — these were the only way one salary could carry three children's dreams.
I went to school in Mumbai and Kolkata, to college here in Delhi, topped the University and earned admission into IIM — and chose instead to follow my passion for international affairs, in America, on a scholarship. Nothing was inherited; everything was earned by hard work and yes, Exams.
So I know that a fair, merit-based system is the only ladder for young people from lower and middle-income families to climb up. When that ladder is broken — papers leaked, examinations cancelled, trust destroyed — the children of the rich and powerful do not suffer. They have other ladders. It is your dreams, and your families' sacrifices (and tragically, in some homes, young lives themselves) that are betrayed.
To the young people gathered at Jantar Mantar, and those raising your voices peacefully across India: this country hears you. Your anger is not indiscipline — it is the anguish of a generation that did everything right and was still betrayed . You are not alone.
And to the millions of young Indians watching quietly: your generation is not a problem to be managed. You are the answer to India's future. Do not lose hope. This ladder will be rebuilt — by you, and by every Indian who stands with you.
To Shri Sonam Wangchuk-ji, my heartfelt appeal: please end your fast. You have awakened the conscience of the nation; that is what a fast is meant to do. India needs your voice for the long road ahead.
With Parliament in session again from Monday, we will have an opportunity to raise the students’ issues in the highest forum of our democracy. That’s where the problem should be addressed, not by fasting unto death. Please heed my plea.
And finally, to the Government: I respectfully urge you to reach out and engage in the dialogue our democracy owes its young citizens. That is not weakness; that is statesmanship.
ब्रिटेन से लौटे आचार्य जी ~ एयरपोर्ट स्वागत की मीडिया में चर्चा 📰 ✨
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It is indeed the need of the hour to see that real spirituality works in both directions:
It looks outward with honesty, and that is rationality.
And it also looks inward with honesty, and that is self-knowledge.
Rationality and self-knowledge must go together, so say the Upanishads:
अन्धं तमः प्रविशन्ति येऽविद्यामुपासते ।
ततो भूय इव ते तमो य उ विद्यायां रताः ॥
They enter into blinding darkness who worship only avidyā (outer rational knowledge);
into still greater darkness those who delight in only vidyā (inner self-knowledge).
विद्याञ्चाविद्याञ्च यस्तद्वेदोभयं सह ।
अविद्यया मृत्युं तीर्त्वा विद्ययाऽमृतमश्नुते ॥
He who knows vidyā and avidyā together crosses death through avidyā and attains immortality through vidyā.
~ Ishavasya Upanishad, Verses 9&11
Not guaranteed but if this happens, we need to demand an emergency Covid style broadcast of the facts of climate change because the media has failed to explain what is approaching. @Keir_Starmer@andyburnham