How a Calendar Exposed the Falling Standards of an IIT
C.P Rajendran | 02 January 2024 | The Wire
A calendar for the year 2024 claiming that it is published under the aegis of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur is available on social media.
As in previous years, the 2024 calendar is used as a platform to propagate false narratives of Indian ancestry. Widely shared on social media, this calendar was produced with creative inputs from the faculty of the Centre of Excellence for Indian Knowledge Systems and is titled “India of the Ages: The Mother of Language, Culture and Civilization”.
The top officials of the institute, including the director and registrar, are named as members of the advisory board. The calendar ends with a note saying: “IIT Kharagpur has immense pleasure in presenting the Calendar of the Centre of Excellence for Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) for the year 2024 … The pool of evidence presented here is just the tip of an iceberg, which is based on detailed investigation, iteration and mutual calibration of facts and the correlations between facts from history, conducted by IIT Kharagpur.”
As in previous years, this calendar also uses a baffling mixture of symbols and images to advance an account of Indian ancestry based on the premise that the Vedic Aryans were indigenous to the Indus Valley region and had been active for more than 20,000 years….