Data shows a trend setting in of more Ashoka University students opting for majors that offer relatively secure career prospects, such as Economics, Finance, and Psychology.
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This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
Ashoka University is an example of an experiment gone horribly wrong.
An institution hijacked by the Left to produce ideologically indoctrinated graduates – an institution by the rich, of the rich and for the rich.
One cannot fathom why someone would be willing to pay 40 lakhs for an undergraduate degree in English? Unless of course it’s black money.
One can only hope that better sense prevails and the University shifts it’s focus to core science subjects.
What is inexplicable though is the obsession of The Print with Ashoka University. Every few days there is an article on the University. Is it some kind of paid advertising?
Ashoka is a cesspool. Though the founders are trying hard to weed out the parasites from the system and focus on their core mission.
The fact remains that the founders of Ashoka were duped by the Left-liberal cabal. They initially wanted to create an MIT-like institution which would conduct path-breaking research in the basic sciences and win Nobel prizes for the nation. To this end the founders (all uber wealthy entrepreneurs, industrialists and businessmen) gathered sufficient resources – both monetary and otherwise.
Very unfortunately, word got around of their plans for creating an MIT-like institution in India. The Left-liberal cabal immediately understood that if the sciences and technology were to be the core focus areas for the university (in it’s pursuit of Nobel Prize winning research), there would hardly be any space for members of the cabal.
Now everyone, even the most hardcore socialists and communists, want a high paying job which involves regular trips to the US and other Western nations for “professional” reasons. Utilising their vast network, the Leftist cabal was successful in getting an audience with the founders and tried their level best in impressing upon the founders that what India needed at the moment was a liberal arts university. Initially, the founders were opposed to the idea but it was the UPA era and the Left-liberal cabal had access to every single office in the nation. They left no stone unturned in their quest to get the founders to commit to a liberal arts university. It is anybody’s guess who benefits the most from the arts and humanities faculties.
Unfortunately, the founders eventually agreed to go ahead with the liberal arts idea. The result is that the university (Ashoka) which was intended to focus on Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry research is now focusing on English literature and History.
The professors are all dyed-in-the-wool Leftists. People like Christophe Jaffrelot call the shots at Ashoka. And their ideological antipathy towards Hinduism often results in very uncouth incidents which bring disrepute to the university.
The Left-liberal cabal succeeded in fooling the founders of Ashoka University. That’s the unfortunate reality.
Ashoka University is an example of an experiment gone horribly wrong.
An institution hijacked by the Left to produce ideologically indoctrinated graduates – an institution by the rich, of the rich and for the rich.
One cannot fathom why someone would be willing to pay 40 lakhs for an undergraduate degree in English? Unless of course it’s black money.
One can only hope that better sense prevails and the University shifts it’s focus to core science subjects.
What is inexplicable though is the obsession of The Print with Ashoka University. Every few days there is an article on the University. Is it some kind of paid advertising?
Ashoka is a cesspool. Though the founders are trying hard to weed out the parasites from the system and focus on their core mission.
The fact remains that the founders of Ashoka were duped by the Left-liberal cabal. They initially wanted to create an MIT-like institution which would conduct path-breaking research in the basic sciences and win Nobel prizes for the nation. To this end the founders (all uber wealthy entrepreneurs, industrialists and businessmen) gathered sufficient resources – both monetary and otherwise.
Very unfortunately, word got around of their plans for creating an MIT-like institution in India. The Left-liberal cabal immediately understood that if the sciences and technology were to be the core focus areas for the university (in it’s pursuit of Nobel Prize winning research), there would hardly be any space for members of the cabal.
Now everyone, even the most hardcore socialists and communists, want a high paying job which involves regular trips to the US and other Western nations for “professional” reasons. Utilising their vast network, the Leftist cabal was successful in getting an audience with the founders and tried their level best in impressing upon the founders that what India needed at the moment was a liberal arts university. Initially, the founders were opposed to the idea but it was the UPA era and the Left-liberal cabal had access to every single office in the nation. They left no stone unturned in their quest to get the founders to commit to a liberal arts university. It is anybody’s guess who benefits the most from the arts and humanities faculties.
Unfortunately, the founders eventually agreed to go ahead with the liberal arts idea. The result is that the university (Ashoka) which was intended to focus on Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry research is now focusing on English literature and History.
The professors are all dyed-in-the-wool Leftists. People like Christophe Jaffrelot call the shots at Ashoka. And their ideological antipathy towards Hinduism often results in very uncouth incidents which bring disrepute to the university.
The Left-liberal cabal succeeded in fooling the founders of Ashoka University. That’s the unfortunate reality.