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Of all the injustices perpetrated by Jindal Steel - what do JGLS students protest about? Palestine. Honestly, it's delusional thinking. Of all the problems faced by workers in Karnataka, what are NLS students most concerned about? that their VC is mean to them. NALSAR exists in a complete bubble where students think their civil rights are being violated by allowing BBA MBA students to have student representatives in student government. And where their teachers tell them that it is revolutionary to get an mx on their degree certificate- rather than- endlessly self-indulgent. This is what passes for activism in a law school in a state where tenant farmers are protesting for compensation after floods and haven't been able to make their voices heard. This elite move away from class issues to identity will make the left lose the country for a generation.
I don't really have a problem with elite academic spaces engaging in academic research and discussion- that is how we solve some problems. What I do have a problem with is what passes for research in our elite institutions today. Which is mostly ideologically driven, poorly evidenced nonsense with no connection to reality. And this stuff helps well-off people clothe themselves in victimhood. What passes for even "good" empirical research is- interviews with five of your queer academic friends about navigating caste and queerness in modern India. Or writing some nonsense about how India decriminalising homosexuality is really pinkwashing. This stuff gets awards. It has no credibility at all, and we've gotten to the point that we cannot even call bullshit on this so-called "research" because the authors will clothe themselves in victimhood because of their claimed identities. It's the death of truth and the death of real, impactful research and critical thinking
And honestly, this elite capture of the left will have serious consequences for poor people and labourers and farmers at the voting booth. The best thing academics can do is to be a little mindful and self-aware at this point instead of sucking up all the air in the room.
The issue starts with education. While the Republican party top are all elites from rich families who went to top-tier schools, their voter base is mostly not very highly educated, not very socially aware of progressive people. That means pandering to them using billionaires as props will completely backfire and they are very aware of it which is why they declare themselves to be "of the people" even though they tend to move to other states or countries the second temperatures get high (hi Ted Cruz). It's like if someone from the Gandhi family in India suddenly declared they pulled themselves up by their bootstraps. Complete nonsense.
Coming to NLU graduates, NLUs aren't super affordable for a lot of people. I know people who got into the top 5 NLUs but couldn't go because of money since local colleges charge 25-35k a semester instead of 100k or more. India is a very poor country but it is easy to live in a comfortably middle class burble without ever actually seeing proper poverty
KH grew up in a poor black neighbourhood. Trump was rich from birth.
Orry the nepo rich brat who gets paid for being a poser voted for Trump. Indian elite people like him all go abroad to study and grab foreign citizenship before returning home. They are not in the NLUs. They are not the common people but they are also not the people in charge of the country.
Just wondering if the same kind of applies to India as well? NLU graduates are either from elite backgrounds, or soon move into the elite strata after graduation, earning lots of money and living a wealthy life. Are we then losing touch with the common people?