IIT Madras gives response to Harvard | Snakes in the Ganga

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Three professors of IIT Madras discuss Rajiv Malhotra and Vijaya Viswanathan's 'Snakes in the Ganga.' They dismantle Harvard's fake scholarship.

Featuring :

Prof. Devendra Jalihal, Dept. of
Electrical Engineering, IT Madras

Prof. Jyotirmaya Tripathy, Head,
Dept of Humanities and Social Sciences

Prof. Ranjit Kumar
Nanda, Dept. of Physics, IIT
Madras

Timestamps:

00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:16 Caste as a capital
00:04:47 Are Brahmins homogeneous?
00:06:01 Anthropology and obsession with otherness
00:08:24 Their discourse and contradictions
00:11:08 Flawed criticisms of IITs
00:13:52 The idea and origin of IITs
00:17:43 Wrong categories used to analyze IITs
00:21:33 Building theories on anecdotic evidence
00:26:36 Liberal arts and elitism in India
00:28:14 The question of meritocracy
00:32:28 representation x presence
00:34:29 Fake scholarship coming from Harvard
00:39:13 Merit versus democracy
00:43:19 Theories of oppression
00:46:36 IIT is a victim
00:48:44 The current scenario
00:52:26 What should IITs do?

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