academia
-
Rest in Peace, Jason Arday
X.T.M mourns Jason Arday, who resigned from Cambridge on 5 August and died on 14 August, aged 41. He argues the failure was institutional before individual, pointing to the plagiarism…
-
Why Pakistani Liberals Remain a Colonised Intellectual Class
X.T.M argues that a dispute over a factual correction showed how Pakistani liberals defer to credentials such as an Oxford degree, a habit he traces to colonisation, and calls on…
-
Does India need more Radhakrishnans? Is it getting them?
RecoveringNewsJunkie links a Print opinion piece on shifting Indian academia toward Indic heritage and asks where today’s Radhakrishnans are.
-
Quite Hectic Days
Writing from fieldwork assessing the governance of 46 Pakistani universities, the author notes that universities grew from 95 to 269 and PhDs from 177 to 3,489 since 2002 without a…
-
A Postcard from Princeton
A postcard from a visit to Princeton, admiring its curated elegance while arguing that the town is a gated community whose wealth underwrites academics’ ideals. The author also says anti-Asian…
-
Brahmanism Versus Brahminism
The Emissary separates Brahman, the metaphysical absolute, from the brahmin priestly caste, and says he prefers ‘Vedic Dharma’ to ‘Brahmanism’, which he finds fair as a label for scriptural Hinduism,…
-
Browncast Episode 67, Conversation with freelance academic Justin Murphy
BrownCast episode 67: the hosts talk to Justin Murphy, a very online ‘post-academic’ and former UK political scientist now back in the USA, about working outside an institution, his return…
-
When White Men rule the roost; there are no need for Rules.
Struck by an Oxbridge historian who rose without finishing his PhD, the author argues that rules were unneeded when academia was all white men, and describes feeling lectured by white…
-
I am Brown, so what?
A Cambridge Graduate Union sabbatical officer reviews six months in office, then describes how, in formal committees that are polite and nominally inclusive, being the only brown person among white…
-
Indian Female Academics of the Left
Attending a Cambridge talk on decolonisation, the author observes that Indian women in humanities are at the vanguard of the left, and argues left-liberal Indians have become de-Hindufied in ways…
