Shri S. Gurumurthy on education beyond mere schooling or literacy.
In my opinion, the colonial education system inherited by India is largely a decadent edifice, created as it was by Macaulay "....
to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect..."
Therefore, it is not surprising that modern India excels in churning out graduates
by the thousands, but fails with few exceptions - to build truly educated citizens
capable of original thinking, creativity or national esteem.
And our generation of engineers, techies etc has, while excelling professionally - largely shirked it's responsibility by vacating the Hindu nationalist space in academia. I mean there is a vacuum in the humanities, which then gets filled by the obnoxious Michael Witzel, Paul Courtwright, Romila Thapar, Irfan Habib types.
In India, the educational system is monopolised by christist missionaries (institutions) and communists (syllabi). State patronage is extended to fellow travellers in the academia who advance the agenda of the 3M thugs. Going against such received wisdom is committing professional suicide for those who hold contrary opinions. A Sitaram Goel who may dare to challenge the establishment is made to languish in insignificance.
Government patronage of Marxist/Missionary agenda => Incentive to seditious elements => Disincentive to work as a "Hindu" academic => Absence of "Hindu" academics
=> Monopoly of anti-national elements over journalism/education/history etc.
The vicious web of blandishments for leftist academics and discrimination against Hindu nationalists is perhaps the greatest disservice done to the nation by the Nehruvian Stalinists and is directly responsible for India's stunting on all fronts.
Organisations such as the Ramakrishna Mission, Ekal Vidyalaya etc are making a valiant effort to counter this phenomenon at various levels.
But, we owe it to ourselves and posterity to contribute our bit to the effort.
One way may be to inculcate cultural nationalism in the next generation of Indians and encouraging them to pursue careers in the humanities.
