India - And now there is "Marks Jihad" LOL

[Shehryar Ashraf]

can't wait for existence jihad.

 

[jamahir]

After a large number of students from Kerala applied to DU colleges for higher studies with good marks, Rakesh Kumar Pandey, a member of RSS-affiliated teachers' body National Democratic Teachers' Front, had criticised the Kerala Education Board, calling it a "marks jihad". Well looks like the Nazis sanghis also. Got the so called educated people into their fold

You are right when you say "so-called educated people". If they really were educated they would have not been allied with such groups and such thought. The Indian education system, particularly in the technological fields, is meant for rote learning and for mechanically churning out graduates in huge numbers for some fashionable thing ( data science, cloud computing etc ) and that too not for innovating. For example, 215,000 computer science graduates come out of Indian colleges every and this has generally been so for at least the last 20 years so that means there would be at least two million computer engineers and PhDs in India. Yet there is not a single local design and development of the two most fundamental elements in the binary computer world - the microprocessor and the operating system. Not a single. Why ? All they do is write exams for facts and do nothing to innovate and produce.

On top of that the technical learnings do not include the humanities studies like empathetic and sensible study of sociology and political and economic systems. This makes the students not only unquestioningly carry on the biases of their families, not only not be empathetic to the socio-economic and political disparities and wrongs in their local society and the world but also be actively in support of the wrongs, hence the huge presence of right-wing Indian youth on the internet, on the streets and in the campuses.

 

[newb3e]

i wish for hindutava to rule india for next 10-15 years!!!

Modi followed by Siri Yogi g!

man that would be amazing!

 

[Bilal.]

Congress, CPI(M) MPs slam DU professor's "mark jihad" remarks against Kerala education board

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, OCTOBER 08, 2021 11:18 IST
UPDATED: OCTOBER 08, 2021 11:32 IST

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said that anti-Kerala bias must end. | Photo Credit: KARUNAKARAN M

CPI(M) leader have asked for disciplinary and legal actions against the DU professor for defamatory and communal remarks.

MPs of the Kerala's ruling CPI(M) and opposition party Congress on Thursday slammed a Delhi University professor's "mark jihad" remarks against the southern state's education board, terming it as "ridiculous" and sought condemnation by the Centre.

After a large number of students from Kerala applied to DU colleges for higher studies with good marks, Rakesh Kumar Pandey, a member of RSS-affiliated teachers' body National Democratic Teachers' Front, had criticised the Kerala Education Board, calling it a "marks jihad".

While Congress MP Shashi Tharoor described it as "ridiculous", CPI(M)' Rajya Sabha member John Brittas shot off a letter to Dharmendra Pradhan, Union Minister for Education, urging him to take disciplinary and legal actions against Pandey for his "highly deplorable, defamatory and communal remarks".

Responding to remarks by Rakesh Kumar Pandey, Mr. Tharoor said, "This anti-Kerala bias must end now!"

"The use of "jihad" as a synonym for any trend you don't like is exceeding all limits: now a DU teacher has got attention by absurdly decrying #MarksJihad!," Mr. Tharoor tweeted, sharing the link of a news report carrying Pandey's controversial remarks.

"I've always decried the over-reliance on marks as the main criterion for DU admission, but this is ridiculous. If "Jihad" means a struggle (with yourself above all), the Kerala students scoring 100% have struggled against the odds to get to DU. Interview them first if you wish before letting them in, but don't demonise their marks! This anti-Kerala bias must end now!", the Thiruvananthapuram MP said.

In his letter to Mr. Pradhan, Mr. Brittas said at no stretch of imagination, those comments can be considered as accidental but are intended to defame Kerala and to create polarization in the society.

"In these circumstances, I request your good self to initiate urgent steps for ensuring exemplary punishment against the delinquent professor, both penal actions as well as departmental actions", the RS MP wrote.

He also urged the Minister to issue a strong condemnation by the Education Ministry against Mr. Pandey's comment.

In a statement on Wednesday, Mr. Pandey had alleged that "the invasion of Kerala board students with perfect 100 per cent marks cannot be considered as unplanned." "It hints at something that must be investigated. There is no way that one can accept this inexplicable flow of students from the Kerala board as normal. Majority of these students are comfortable neither in Hindi nor in English. All these students do not have 100 per cent marks in Class 11," Pandey had said, calling it a "marks jihad".

Over 100 admissions of students of the Kerala board were put on hold by the Delhi University (DU) over a confusion related to their marksheets, but the matter was resolved after officials contacted the board in the southern state, sources had said on Wednesday.

Amid a large number of students from the Kerala board applying to DU colleges, that too a majority of them being perfect scorers, an issue over their marksheets had risen on Monday, leading the admission branch of the university to direct the colleges to put the admissions on hold.

A majority of these admissions had taken place in north campus colleges, the sources had said.

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Jamahir's comment : LOL. Can't Indian Muslims do anything without it being termed as "Jihad" or them being implicated in some "Jihad" by the Hindutvadis ? First came Love Jihad, then Land Jihad, then UPSC Jihad, then Narco Jihad and now Marks Jihad.

@Mentee @fitpOsitive @Goenitz @Bilal9

Seems like Communist Party of India (Marxist) is planning to pull a Stalin on you.

 

[HalfMoon]

The only way to solve this mess is to replaced the state based curriculum with a single centralized/standardize curriculum and education board across the country.

 

[PakFactor]

What an utter shit hole of a neighbor we have.

 

[Novus ordu seclorum]

Years ago, I too had a business associate by the name Jihad and he too was a Lebanese Christian. Being fairly well read, I understood that this is an Arabic name, but to be honest I don't expect everyone to know this, especially those who have focussed solely on technical subjects all the time. Much of the world is ignorant about rest of the world. What is perhaps expected behaviourally is to do some homework yourself before asking such questions and being cognizant of what is considered rude in certain cultures. In India for example no one minds these kinds of questions, or at least does not display the displeasure openly.

Obsession about religion has moved past culture and has become political. This is my theory. A child identifies with the religion and beliefs of his parents and queries other children about theirs. In grown ups this can produce an effect called infantile ego or infantile omnipotence. It is a form of narcissism in the individual and in politics it becomes fascism, communism, or an ideology. This is occurring in India. In infantile omnipotence, people blur the difference between themselves and the world around them canceling boundaries of respect and rights for others.

 

[jamahir]

Seems like Communist Party of India (Marxist) is planning to pull a Stalin on you.

What are you talking about ?