Biased, irrational topics being discussed at Delhi University course for profs
Yajna can help combat pollution and the image of an ‘omkar’ is visible in sun rays! These are some of the topics being discussed at Delhi University currently. An ongoing orientation and refresher course launched by the Delhi University for its faculty members on November 28, on ‘Education with Indian Values’ and ‘Indian culture thoughts and thinkers’, has been focussing on these topics.
Sitting in a tightly-packed classroom at the Centre for Professional Development in Higher Education (CPDHE), faculty members eagerly waiting for “academically” important topics were taken by surprise and rather irked by the “unscientific” discussions.
“NASA has recently proved that the image of omkar can be found in sun rays,” said Atul Kothari, former general secretary of RSS-backed Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and the general secretary of Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas, a right-wing educational organisation, while addressing the first day of the course.
On the second day, another speaker, who is a physics professor at DU, gave a detailed lecture on the importance of yajna. “We were told by a physics teacher that the ghee used in Yajna pacifies the particulate matters present in the environment. We are being taught things which are scientifically incorrect,” a Dyal Singh College professor, …read more
