The IITs have been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons. This time it is not about the fat pay packets their students have got in the institute placements, but about ghosts and steppe people invading, or rather not invading, Bharatvarsh. First, the ghosts. The director of an IIT posted a video on social media where he claimed he had exorcised ghosts by chanting mantras and espousing the wisdom of the Bhagwad Gita. Then, IIT Kharagpur, the oldest amongst these venerable institutions, brought out its 2022 calendar.
Ordinarily, these things are either harmless propaganda for the institution’s great work or contain innocuous photographs of flora and fauna. What made this particular piece of work remarkable was that it claimed to be debunking certain myths about ancient India….
Shobhit Mahajan – An Infinity of Questions
Shobhit Mahajan: Incredible Indians
Shobhit Mahajan: The ties that bind religion, popular culture
Partha Chatterjee: No one, not even Indians, can claim to be part of an ancient nation
After the truth-shower 