A Systemic Analysis of Social Problems in India - Part Five

Immediate Course Corrections for a Vikasita Bhārata

This is the final part in the series of essays offering a systemic reflection on India’s past, present, and future. The last part identifies systemic correctives at the legislative, policy, and administrative levels that are actionable for 2047.

Vismṛti, Nalanda Vihāra, Experience, and Indian Education

Vismṛti, experience, and the challenge of reclaiming Indian education.

Colonial Education, Cultural Amnesia and Pathologies of the Raj

Education in post-colonial India, as Ashis Nandy argues, has become a means to inculcate a 'shared culture' in which, ‘the ruled are constantly tempted to fight their rulers within the psychological limits set by the latter.' This demonstrates the durability of the psychological aspect of colonial conquest, one that continues to remain below the surface all this while and cannot be repelled by force.