That was a well written article. The following quote from the article shows the situation in India :
"If 7 Cabinet ministers, 19 Members of parliament, such a lot of IAS officers, many writers, artists, actors, media personalities and so on came from a single college in a vast county like India, it speaks more about the limited circles that monopolise different kinds of capital in the country than about the training they receive in college. "
That author really needs to take a class called How To Write Plain English.
I struggled to parse text like, "...the 88 teachers who teach can only be used as Indian samples, if and only if, one is ready to situate them in socio-economic givens" or "... disabling us from looking at the micro-manifestations of issues from a methodologically nuanced, institutionally useful and politically sensitive position"
Wow that was bad. He basically says "well the arguments were a bunch of anecdotes therefore I will ignore them." Not once does he refute, even anecdotally, the charges made in the original.
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The author of this article tweeted a response by a Professor from the same college: http://kafila.org/2013/05/06/the-golchakkar-of-premier-insti...
That was a well written article. The following quote from the article shows the situation in India : "If 7 Cabinet ministers, 19 Members of parliament, such a lot of IAS officers, many writers, artists, actors, media personalities and so on came from a single college in a vast county like India, it speaks more about the limited circles that monopolise different kinds of capital in the country than about the training they receive in college. "
That author really needs to take a class called How To Write Plain English.
I struggled to parse text like, "...the 88 teachers who teach can only be used as Indian samples, if and only if, one is ready to situate them in socio-economic givens" or "... disabling us from looking at the micro-manifestations of issues from a methodologically nuanced, institutionally useful and politically sensitive position"
Wow that was bad. He basically says "well the arguments were a bunch of anecdotes therefore I will ignore them." Not once does he refute, even anecdotally, the charges made in the original.