The RSS has always tried to further it’s ideology of Brahmin supremacy. They have in the past opposed the constitution, calling for the use of the Manusmriti (a code of law penalising Dalits by the pouring of silver into their ears for even hearing Brahmin scriptures) instead.
Now they are up in arms against education, once again to stall the empowerment of the depressed and further their fascist, supremacist ideas.
Whether discussing issues of contemporary concern among students, raising debates around them on the campus – taking inspiration from the ideas of leading social revolutionaries of 20th century – should be construed as an act of creating ‘social disharmony’ or ‘spreading hatred’ ?
Any sane person would rather reject this weird proposal but it appears that the bureaucrats in the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) think otherwise. It was evident in the way they acted on an anonymous complaint regarding the activities of a group of students in IIT Madras which calls itself ‘Ambedkar-Periyar Study Circle’ (APSC) – which comprises mainly of dalit, bahujan and adivasi students. Perhaps they were worried that the particular students group, has been critical about PM Modi’s policies and has been raising issues of caste, communalism as well as corporate loot of resources and challenging the ‘development’ narrative which is popular these days…
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Signs of the Times 