Thread by @vraman16

Unpopular opinion: I don't see introducing a degree on Hinduism as any achievement. Rather I see it as a pathological sign of further downfall. The slow metamorphosis of a living tradition has now gone into academics enabling its fossilization in a museum in due course. 1/n

https://twitter.com/Sassy_Hindu/status/1428515396378824708

Be that as it may, im yet to see the full course content of this program. When the shastras and darshana studies moved out from gurukula to public universities, it has undergone several mutations making it 'palatable' to the students. But this happened some 100 yrs back. 2/n

Now after 100 years we see this. US n European Univs may have such programs, so am not sure whether this is in line to mimic them or not. Furthermore, can a non hindu do justice while teaching this course? In a mainstream degree program like history we have seen how muslims.. 3/n

...have wreaked havoc in creating an anti hindu narrative. Then how in a centrally funded univ, where even a muslim may be appointed to a vedic study department, prevent non hindus from peddling anti hindu narrative to gullible students royally staying within the ambit of...4/n

..teaching this degree in hinduism? How will a non-hindu teacher assess a passionate hindu student's narration of atrocities meted out unto his community by the non hindus, say in an examination? Or is this degree a covert move to de-root similar what we are seeing in Yoga? 5/n

New programs r welcome. Commendable would have been if BHU had adopted one of the decaying veda pathashalas n chalked a hybrid program both for her students and the vatuks in the pathashala. This,imho, will be inline with Malviya ji's dream of unifying pracheena n arvaacheena 6/n

In TN the temples r desecrated in the name of egalitarianism. N at the same time we c a degree program on hinduism getting introduced in a 100 yrs old university. Somehow i see both on similar lines. I may b over exaggerating, or have imbibed the doomsday predicting syndrome 7/n

Let me end my rant here. In short, I foresee this degree program on hinduism by bhu as another pointless act amounting to moving the air. I sincerely hope n pray my premonitions turn out baseless n utterly false. Will wait and see. 8/n n/n 🙏