Indian higher education has a woke-jihadi academic complex

Through big lies, doublespeak, etc., the woke-jihadi academic complex seeks to capture the minds of young Indians.

- SANTISHREE DHULIPUDI PANDIT

The recent initiative under the Trump 2.0 administration in the US to dismantle the Department of Education and defund prominent higher education institutions was an aggressive but deliberate step to counter the deeply entrenched wokejihadi complex in academia.

These ideological networks have long dominated research institutions and elite universities in the West, spreading divisive ideas that even reach into the scientific and engineering domains. Alarmingly, this same complex has now found fertile ground in India's premier institutions, including IITS, IISERS, NITs, and several private universities.

This ideological shift poses a grave threat to India's aspirations for Viksit Bharat 2047 and the realization of Amrit Kaal.

Forces hostile to India's civilizational ethos are not only rewriting history by whitewashing the plunder, forced conversions, and cultural erasures committed against Hindus but are also now redirecting promising young researchers into academic projects that subtly or explicitly serve their anti-Bharat agenda.

If the Government of India and the Education Ministry fail to act swiftly, we risk nurturing a generation of intellectuals, scientists, and bureaucrats who are ideologically compromised and disconnected from India's Dharmic civilizational values.

India's leading HEIs are training young minds to grow alienated from this Dharmic civilization and the values it upholds: diversity, democ racy, difference, debate, and dissent. Ironically, these are the very values these institutions claim to champion.

Without the foundation of Vedic knowledge or lessons from the Upanishads in our curricula, we are enabling our best minds to be indoctrinated against all that is authentically Bharatiya. The failure is also ours, for despite a decade in power, the establishment has yet to effectively identify and uproot this insidious network.