Indian academia need not wait for its Jason Arday moment. It has already had several. The question is whether it is willing to see the pattern before another one becomes fatal.
On subjects such as climate change, thinktanks produce technocratic reports on grid modernisation and green hydrogen while academics debate intersectionality and justice. The two worlds must meet.
The disastrous paper leak aside, the June 2024 NET brought in countless complaints from students regarding the quality of exam centres allotted. And the format shifted from computer based to the manual OMR.
Three days after the 9/11 attacks, PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee addressed the nation, strongly condemning the terrorist attacks and expressing solidarity with the people of the US.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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