Articles by GN Devy

Politics

In a new book of essays, scholar GN Devy asks whether India risks becoming an anti-knowledge nation

One of the recurring themes in the BJP government’s discourse is that of making India “vishwaguru”. The government’s policy for education, its restructuring of higher education regulators, its wishful depiction of ancient India’s past and its cultural politics – all are oriented towards claiming for India the status of a...