When IISERs first started, they used to pay scholarships to every student.
Then those scholarships ceased, but students who earned KVPY or DST Inspire fellowships received financial support.
Then KVPY was stopped. Now it appears that DST Inspire is gone too👇
Meanwhile the fees have continued to go up. Now it’s close to 60K per semester.
Slowly but surely IISERs are being put beyond the reach of financially weak but talented Indian students. We have barely heard a word of protest from Indian academics on this.
Concerning🧵 #DST#InspireSHE#IISER
After stopping KVPY, @IndiaDST has silently discontinued INSPIRE-SHE scholarship for BS and MS students. This is a nightmare for fundamental science in India. Students were uncertain about this until a certain student from IISc filed RTI. 1/n
Rarely has any Indian government reacted so meekly to aggression from world powers. This exhibition of weakness could have serious long-term consequences too.
A simple thought experiment: If the two commercial ships attacked by the US military in International waters had Chinese crew instead of Indian nationals, would the US have targeted them? And how would have China responded?
Tells you all you need to know about Modi’s 12 years.
During UPA Govt led by Dr Manmohan Singh removed security from US embassy and checked passports of US diplomats when US misbehaved with an Indian diplomat in US, and also condemned US in strong words
Today US Navy literally killed our Indian seafarers in Oman sea, but our Modi Govt has no guts to condemn it by taking the name of US, forget about taking any action
What a downfall of India's image at global level. All because of a compromised PM 😑
@deepakpurti@_______pritha@Ayshe__ee@YesWeExistIndia@VijetaDahiya@Cockroachisback a more academic source i guess: Genderqueer and Non-Binary Genders | Springer Nature Link https://t.co/e5wjzRe38D
chapter 2, page 11-30. There are also mentions of the machi people of the chilean mapucha tribe who are also described to have a context dependent changeable identity
@deepakpurti@_______pritha@Ayshe__ee@YesWeExistIndia@VijetaDahiya@Cockroachisback worthy to note that it is unwise to impose current language surrounding gender onto communities and cultures not mainstreamed by modern Western society. Their conception of gender does not fit the language we use today. This goes for any concept, not just gender tbh.
"It is a minor miracle that the youth, faced with parental pressure, overbearing states, systemic incompetence and poor job prospects, respond only with a silly meme. Their peers in Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have been rather more heavy-handed with their own ageing leaders."
Seal exists? ✔️
Ancient? ✔️
Figure surrounded by animals? ✔️
Definitely Shiva? ❌
Proof of yoga tradition? ❌
Unbroken civilizational continuity? ❌
They’ve taken a real artifact and layered it with interpretation + nationalism to push a continuity narrative that isn’t proven.