Rajeev Bargava in his article ,
“the perilous state of academic freedom”
(last week)has rightly warned about another”
brain drain” due to lack of academic freedom slowly eroding in India in the
recent past. If we are really serious about emergence of more and more centers
of excellence with global ranking for our universities , the
fundamental requirement is the prevalence of the atmosphere of freedom to the
administrators, teachers and students for freedom of expression of their
thoughts over policies, programmes,
rules and events which happen around them. Teachers are expected to encourage
students to ask questions on matters of national, regional, campus and academic
importance. Such encouragement should be given to the teachers too, to result in the publication of research
papers and books of high quality. Fearless Questioning habit will result in vibrant academic discussions and kindle the thought process. But if anybody who have
dissenting views are questioned by the university authorities and
actions taken on them to discourage them from free thinking activities and if any
academician is threatened for free
writing , research process and quality would be poor. Choking or stifling
atmosphere in our universities would drive them outside our nation in search of
academic freedom
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