We have to develop a social and an intellectual point of view that will be able to solve the problems of our current generation. We have to free our youth from the colonial values: J Nandkumar
J Nandkumar, National Convener of Prajna Pravah, an intellectual body of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), says that the 'culture of protests' or even the practice of 'cultural evenings' in our educational institutes are not part of our "real" culture.
"What's going on here (educational institutes) in the name of culture is actually an onslaught on our real culture – be it cultural evenings or the culture of protests. It badly affects young minds and poisons the environment of our educational institutes," said Nandkumar.
He was addressing the media on the concluding day of a two-day RSS seminar, organised to give lessons to teachers on how to "Indianise" teaching and put behind the current "colonial way" of imparting knowledge.
"We have to develop a social and an intellectual point of view that will be able to solve the problems of our current generation. We have to free our youth from the colonial values," he said.
As many as 721 academicians, including 51 Vice Chancellors (VCs) from both the central as well as state varsities, had gathered to participate in the seminar titled 'Gyan Sangham', which was oganised at the Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology and Management. Delhi University (DU) VC Yogesh Tyagi also participated in the seminar.
"We need to first tap academicians in order to reach out to students with Indianised form of educational content," Nandkumar said, adding that there was a need to free the teaching system from colonial values and establish national values there.
"It is the duty of our academicians to decide on the content of education. If you go through the science syllabi in our universities, it is all about the west. We are not teaching our students the contributions of Indians in science," he said.
"Academicians participating in the seminar resolved to make an effort at their level to develop the 'Bharatiya' perspective in education. This is a time of revival of nationalism throughout the world. All intellectuals here (India) should also come together to nationalise our education system," Nandkumar said.
The seminar was a closed-door, invitation-only event, in which senior RSS leaders, including Sangh Chief Mohan Bhagwat, participated. "This seminar is not organised to raise an alternative narrative but to raise the true nationalist narrative in our educational system," Bhagwat said.
The seminar was divided into three parts -- session-wise discussions on various subjects including political science, international relations, history, archaeology, science and so on, expert sessions on different topics including 'cultural onslaught', and interaction with Bhagwat.
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