Best picture on internet today. So I want to keep it on my timeline.
For those unaware:
Drowning baby elephant rescued from Teesta River by fishermen, reunited with mother in Maalbazar, West Bengal.
Huge respect to the fishermen!
The Indian courts simply do not get this: that millions of Muslims who pour on to the streets demanding Sar Tan Se Juda are merely following the fundamentals. They are not mad. They are not terrorists. They are not fanatics. They are law-abiding. Their law is Sharia.
My views:
सवर्ण समाज को अपने पर अब ध्यान देना होगा
वर्ना ऐसे ही बैठे रहे लिख के रखो 10 साल बाद
गुलामी का एहसास हो जाएगा
अपने संस्थान खोलो - 60 -40 का ratio रखो
40% अपने समाज के गरीब लोगों के बच्चों को पढ़ाएंगे और 60% जो फीस दे सकते
केवल सवर्ण होंगे उस संस्थान में
ये करना ही पड़ेगा वर्ना ये सरकार सवर्णों को बर्बाद कर देगी
IIT बॉम्बे की टॉपर प्रिया मिश्रा का बयान चर्चा में है।
तीसरे साल की छात्रा प्रिया मिश्रा ने कहा —
“छात्र के परिवार के लिए दुख है। लेकिन सूर्यनारायण सर को सजा क्यों मिल रही है? अगर नकल नहीं होती, तो सर कोई कार्रवाई नहीं करते।
30-40 पर्सेंटाइल लेकर IIT में आ जाते हो, और फिर परीक्षा में मोबाइल से नकल करना चाहते हो क्योंकि दबा��� नहीं झेल सकते। मैं 90 प्रतिशत ला सकती हूँ, लेकिन मेरे पास आईफोन खरीदने के पैसे नहीं हैं।
विशेषाधिकार मुझे मिलना चाहिए, ऐसे बच्चों को नहीं।
केस उनके माता-पिता पर होना चाहिए। केस उस सिस्टम पर होना चाहिए जिसने एक कमजोर और अनपढ़ बच्चे को इतने बड़े संस्थान में भेज दिया, जहाँ दिमाग, IQ और दबाव झेलने की हिम्मत चाहिए।
अगर दबाव नहीं झेल सकते तो घर बैठो। सीट बर्बाद मत करो। सूर्यनारायण सर का इस्तीफा इस देश के हर ईमानदार शिक्षक का अंत है, और अब नकल शर्मनाक काम भी नहीं रहेगी।”
Dr Doolla is an acclaimed professor of Energy Sciences at IIT Bombay. An MTech and a PhD from IIT, he has received excellence in teaching award twice. He recently caught a student cheating. The student committed suicide.
Dr Doolla has now been charged under the SC/ST Act.
@PadhiarHemant@dekhane_mukul Thanks Mukul 🙏Wishing you and your family a very Happy Ganesh Chaturthi filled with the divine blessings from Bappa of peace, prosperity, and joy! 🙏🙌
Dharmendra Pradhan was the worst Education Minister.
Not for students.
For those who thought they owned education.
For decades,
One ecosystem decided what students should remember.
Which reforms were welcomed.
Which reforms were buried.
Invaders received chapters.
Heroes received footnotes.
Wounds were edited.
Wisdom was labelled mythology.
Bureaucrats shaped the rollout.
The ecosystem guarded the gates.
Because education was never just policy.
It was power.
Influence.
Business.
Graduates rolled out like an end-of-season sale.
Degrees everywhere.
Thinkers missing.
Then came 2014.
Modi tried ministers.
Smriti Irani.
Prakash Javadekar.
Ramesh Pokhriyal.
Each touched the machinery.
The machinery touched back.
Because education reform in India is not administration.
It is bomb disposal.
Then came Dharmendra Pradhan.
The man had already delivered LPG cylinders.
Into all corners of India.
2021.
Modi handed him education.
And Pradhan entered the building.
Quietly.
He saw files.
And landmines.
Under his tenure came:
NEP 2020 implementation.
The National Curriculum Framework.
PM SHRI schools.
PARAKH assessment reforms.
APAAR student identity.
Academic Bank of Credits.
The National Credit Framework.
Multidisciplinary education.
Indian Knowledge Systems.
New accreditation architecture.
The Radhakrishnan reforms.
Stronger examination laws.
And the VBSA Bill.
A Bill designed to dismantle the UGC-AICTE-NCTE nexus.
Naturally, everyone was angry.
But the real explosion was elsewhere.
Inside NCERT.
Ganita Prakash.
Kaushal Bodh.
Kriti.
Poorvi.
Indian names returned.
So did Indian knowledge.
Baudhayana entered mathematics.
Ancient science.
Architecture.
Tribal traditions.
Marathas.
Civilisational Bharat.
The Constitution grew stronger.
Rights were taught.
Duties were restored.
Citizenship became participation.
The Emergency entered Class Nine.
India was no longer shown only as a land repeatedly defeated.
India became a civilisation that created, questioned and survived.
That disturbed 5 established kingdoms:
Narrative power.
Institutional power.
Epistemic power.
Moral power.
Generational power.
Then came the paper leak.
The crime was real.
The anger was legitimate.
But the investigation became drama.
The crowd wanted a face.
Television wanted a sacrifice.
Politics supplied the cross.
On 25th July,
Dharmendra Pradhan resigned.
The crowd celebrated.
The ecosystem exhaled.
We crucified the man who was repairing the classroom.
And the real culprits watched from safer rooms.
Paper leaks must be punished.
Ministers must be accountable.
But accountability without investigation is mob psychology.
We rarely study the file.
We study the hashtag.
We do not follow chronology.
We follow choreography.
And young minds?
They are told whom to hate before being told what happened.
So ask one uncomfortable question.
Was Pradhan removed because he failed education?
Or because he had finally begun changing who controlled it?