Begin typing your search above and press return to search.
proflie-avatar
Login
exit_to_app
RSS chiefs ‘real Independence Day
access_time 15 Jan 2025 10:38 AM IST
The firestorm in America
access_time 14 Jan 2025 10:36 AM IST
Dont let this daughter be defeated, too
access_time 13 Jan 2025 9:30 AM IST
The India-Taliban talks
access_time 11 Jan 2025 9:20 AM IST
Who will give back their lost years?
access_time 10 Jan 2025 11:01 AM IST
DEEP READ
Munambam Waqf issue decoded
access_time 16 Nov 2024 10:48 PM IST
Ukraine
access_time 16 Aug 2023 11:16 AM IST
Putin
access_time 2 Jan 2025 1:36 PM IST
What is Christmas?
access_time 26 Dec 2024 11:19 AM IST
exit_to_app
Homechevron_rightIndiachevron_rightGovt against...

Govt against "thinkers", fosters atmosphere which destroys critical thinking: Yechury

text_fields
bookmark_border
Govt against thinkers, fosters atmosphere which destroys critical thinking: Yechury
cancel

New Delhi: The government was against "thinkers" and fosters an atmosphere which "destroys" critical thinking, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Tuesday said, a day after Indian American and JNU alumni Abhijit Banerjee was awarded the Nobel Prize along with two others in Economics.

Tagging his comment with a cartoon on Twitter, which showed Nobel laureates from West Bengal - Rabindranath Tagore and Amartya Sen asking latest entrant Banerjee to join the club and to keep his award safe as well as thoughts to himself, Yechury said the government was against the spirit of inquiry.

"RSS/BJP govt believes in FIRs against thinkers and attacks on Universities. They foster a climate that works to destroy critical thinking, reason and the spirit of inquiry. Our Constitution speaks of a commitment to scientific temper but that would threaten the RSS/BJP government," he said.

Yechury said the government should focus on feeding the poor and building a robust public distribution system.

"First feed our poor. Increase subsidised food allocation through public distribution system. But the Modi govt is busy in destroying our social fabric, and in PR and tamashas "The facts on India's Hunger problem are stark. The Economy crashing is not just numbers. It is about lives, but the Modi govt does not care," he tweeted.

Show Full Article
News Summary - Govt against "thinkers", fosters atmosphere which destroys critical thinking: Yechury
Next Story