For decades, the IITs have been held up as temples of modern India, producing some of the sharpest minds who went on to shape industry, science, and technology worldwide. But look closer today, and a disturbing pattern is emerging.
The very institutions that were meant to be the powerhouse of a confident and self-reliant Bharat are increasingly becoming laboratories for ideological experiments imported wholesale from the West. The “woke agenda” has crept into the walls of IITs along with various HEIs (higher education institutes) like IIMs and others. It has occurred often through their humanities and social sciences departments, and is slowly colonising young minds under the garb of postcolonial and social justice. At this point, one must ask: Is such scholarship or selective ideological