Decolonisation is a word that has been in trend lately. Many different people have different ideas about decolonisation and I too have an idea of what a completely decolonised India would look like. People associate decolonisation with repealing colonial institutions that have long stopped working for the people but rather only work against them, a linguistic reform which would enable a pan Indian Identity and a cultural narrative for India which would give it a firm footing to fight the universalisation of western values sometimes even by force. (For ex: Syria and South Korea). The one aspect of knowledge system and perhaps the most fundamental and important i.e. science is where people don’t expect nor do they even comprehend that any kind of decolonisation is needed. People not only in India but around the world accept that science developed in the west because of obvious reasons like the government propaganda and the not so obvious reason: school/University texts and experts. The...
Hindusthan ka Vikas : Ek adhunik Hindu prayog is what I want my title to be translated into. I would like to say at the outset that it is no attempt to exclude any other community from the development of the country. There is an attempt in India to imitate the western development models because of the premise that these models are perfect and the belief in western superiority in science. Before I try and dismantle that belief I would like to take a look at how the academia in this country has systematically undermined Indian knowledge and Indian knowledge systems. It goes without saying that we should accept any idea that is useful given that our conditions are conducive to that idea. People's distrust in the academics today is the result of their denigration and degradation of all things Indian rather all things Hindu as saffron terror. All the knowledge and schools of thought that have emanated from India will have saffron shade no matter how much you try to delink it with it...