An alarmingly large number of students has been dropping out of the IITs over the last couple of years; a disproportionate number of them come from the Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Castes category.
When the draft New Education Policy was uploaded on the MHRD website this May, it was exciting to see the centrality of the liberal arts in the section on higher education, writes novelist and scholar Saikat Majumdar.
Saikat Majumdar’s book The Scent of God talks about Anirvan, who dreams of becoming a monk. But as he seeks his dream, he finds himself drawn to a fellow student, and they come together to form an intimate and unspeakable relationship.
