When the newly elected New York mayor Zohran Mamdani was recently mocked for eating with his hands, it exposed the enduring afterlife of colonial hierarchies.
For India, from universal suffrage to space research, progress has often begun as a gamble. In the new age of tariffs and tech rivalry, research suggests that the appetite for experimentation could be its key strategic asset.
The focus on Indian knowledge systems in the UGC’s proposed mathematics curriculum is a repetition of school-level content and better suited to disciplines such as astronomy and religious studies.