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Homi Jehangir Bhabha, often referred to as the “Father of the Indian Nuclear Programme”, is certainly one of the greatest minds to have ever been born in the sacred land of India. He was the founding director of the Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay (AEET) which has now been renamed as the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in his honour.

One of the earliest school of medicine known to mankind is Ayurveda. It was consolidated by Charaka nearly 2500 years ago. Ayurveda is a Sanskrit word in which ‘Ayur’ means life and ‘Veda’ means science. Ayurveda is the science of life.

Former Mumbai Police ACP Shamsher Khan Pathan made shocking revelations in a letter dated July 2021. The retired police official alleged that Param Bir Singh misused his power and position as the superior officer in the police force to suppress the voice of his subordinate thus “concealing, misappropriating and destroying a vital piece of evidence, i.e the mobile phone of terrorist Ajmal Kasab, found in his possession when he was nabbed on November 26, 2008, in order to help the cause of the terrorists and enemies in Pakistan as well as some within our country too.”

If India appeared as a palimpsest to those who wrote on her history in the yesteryears, history of education in India is an equally competent palimpsest spanning thousands of years if not more. On restricting the scope to engineering education for its pedagogy and content in large that we recognize and associate with today, we need to go no further than the last 200 years.

Between the 1st and 10th of June 1984, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had launched an operation to flush out terrorists from the Golden Temple. Operation Blue Star was the code name for the Indian military action carried out to remove Khalistan terrorist Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his armed followers from the Harminder Sahib complex in Amritsar.

The causes of social change affect or characterize every aspect of society across the world. On a macro scale, they shape all of our major social institutions (economics, politics, religion, family, education, science/technology, military, legal system, and so on. On a micro scale, they shape our values, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors.

The central premise of the campaign to decriminalize homosexuality in India was that it was not the Government’s business what two consenting adults did in their own bedroom. And there was a certain level of merit to that argument. Consequently, the Supreme Court of India proceeded to decriminalize the same. But since then, events have unfolded in such a manner that homosexual relationships, and ideologies far more toxic than that, have now found their way to children’s classrooms.

Actor Suriya’s latest film Jai Bhim, which was released on November 2 on OTT platform Amazon Prime, had found itself in the eye of another raging storm after a video clip from the movie promoting violence and hatred against Hindi speakers had gone viral on the internet.

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is an important organisation in India. It is a body whose published books are studied by millions of children in India at schools and in fact, NCERT books are used in all CBSE schools of the country. So, it is safe to say that the body has an uncomfortable monopoly over the young and impressionable minds of children. Already, NCERT books’ content, particularly the history curriculum of the council, has come under intense scrutiny in recent years. Now, a shameless NCERT has decided to go fully ‘woke’ in order to morally deracinate Indian civilisation as a whole.

Balasaheb Thackeray’s ideology has finally found its protagonist in our current Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. His work ethic, government functioning, and international outreach in terms of dignity, respect and honor as an Indian and self-sacrificing tendency blend democracy and a pinch of Authoritarian-cum-dictator duality. This brings forth a brand-new political idea of “Statesmanship-Democratism.”