I passed out of JNU three months back. Though I had one of the greatest of experiences in the campus, its difficult to put it down in writing that I love the place.
My belief is that the professors of my department had some role to play in this. CESP professors, or rather most of them are old hacks holding on to a dead school of thought.
No wait!
I'm being kind. They are no more than the extended intellectual propaganda machine of the CPI(M). To them, everything the party does is an unmitigated blessing- from opposing nuclear energy deal with the U.S., to killing farmers in Nandigram.
They do not stop there. They have reduced economics to a farcical textual analysis backed with laughable numbers. Such dilution of the science is hardly acceptable. It has never ceased to amaze me how people like Anjan Mukherji, Satish Jain, Krishnendu Ghosh Dostidar, Subrato Guha etc (high priests of real economics, not the speak-easy leftists) can chose to stay in this stultifying unscientific atmosphere.
Professor C.P. Chandrasekhar (one of those idiots) once mocked those, who according to him, have become economists by reading World Development Reports.
Some of us actually fell for it.
Well to me, JNU rolls out economists whose knowledge is bound by Macroscan and EPW. If you were to ask me, I'd be really confused to point out which one is better.
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Strong words..
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Some people will never be grateful for anything in life. Neither their parents, their loved ones nor even the kind of education that hundreds of thousands would die for. They wont even do anything about it except crib. They wouldn’t prepare themselves for DSE (why waste an year? Considering what is one year in front of what you want to do for the rest of your life), or even talk to their professors about their dissatisfaction (but then these real economic knowers don’t have the arms to do that!).
And they who choose not to opine on other people, - on anything - books, movies etc but not on people have such horrendous comments posted on their blog about their own classmates and Profs!
Someone would die for JNU?
probably they were more in love with the discipline to let 'unscientific atmosphere' get in the way!
lets see how far you go to stand for what you believe in.
Well The Great SKJ on being asked once as to how do we know what to believe in? in a seminar said," by looking at the premises and the logic used to reach the conclusion".
Frustation is a sign of disbelief. Too easy !!!!
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