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Great article, these comments are not it. Imagine getting a PhD in engineering to babysit a bunch of students. Make it campus parents of you really want to force academics into psychoanalysis, cause society is all”fathers are important” until it comes to actually having empathy or parenting.
Since Suman Chakraborty, a computational scientist for his whole life, considering adult undergrad students as children obviously he will name it “campus mothers”. Counselling, especially peer counselling is an extremely important initiative needed at Indian campuses, much appreciated, but call it for what it is.
Idiotic article. Written by fools.
These people must be the products of US affirmative actions. Only US universities, controlled by the woke left, are capable of producing such idiots/fools.
The authors are very accomplished professionals for sure. But this is what misplaced feminism does to “impressionable” young minds. It’s quite clear from the article that during their own “impressionable” years, someone must have drilled feministic non-sense into them.
Instead of focusing on the prevention of frequent student suicides at IITs/IISc/IISER, they are busy fighting the imaginary ghost of patriarchy in an urgently required initiative. For them the lives of young students can take the backseat while they battle “patriarchy and misogyny”.
Great article, these comments are not it. Imagine getting a PhD in engineering to babysit a bunch of students. Make it campus parents of you really want to force academics into psychoanalysis, cause society is all”fathers are important” until it comes to actually having empathy or parenting.
Since Suman Chakraborty, a computational scientist for his whole life, considering adult undergrad students as children obviously he will name it “campus mothers”. Counselling, especially peer counselling is an extremely important initiative needed at Indian campuses, much appreciated, but call it for what it is.
Wokeism at its height
Idiotic article. Written by fools.
These people must be the products of US affirmative actions. Only US universities, controlled by the woke left, are capable of producing such idiots/fools.
Never thought such a day would come.
Our nation labels every feminine thing it reveres as Mother…Ganga ,Cow; Bharat, Earth & so on.
The first line of article says ….calling them Mothers is a reductive measure ?♂️?♂️.
Just to soothe them…Allen has ” Allen Papa” for kids preparing for NEET, JEE.
The authors are very accomplished professionals for sure. But this is what misplaced feminism does to “impressionable” young minds. It’s quite clear from the article that during their own “impressionable” years, someone must have drilled feministic non-sense into them.
Instead of focusing on the prevention of frequent student suicides at IITs/IISc/IISER, they are busy fighting the imaginary ghost of patriarchy in an urgently required initiative. For them the lives of young students can take the backseat while they battle “patriarchy and misogyny”.