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The above caption might be a bit discomforting and to some not really relevant, but I believe it’s a serious issue to look into. The power of academic hegemony is extremely underrated in the modern world of communication. In the article I will be taking up a few examples so as to further illustrate my point. As a student of political science it is very important to criticize and question any theory, irrespective of its importance. Some of the basic areas of specialization in the discipline are open to critical questioning. Comparative politics is one such example, students are told that such a discipline based on comparison helps to find out best method, but the key question is ‘’what is the best method?’’ ‘’ what are the parameters for declaring a winner?’’. At the end of the day the answer is the modern liberal democracy, the forms might vary from parliamentary to presidential but the larger structure remains, such a discourse has been repeated to the point of exhaustion, but if we s...

Even before the advent and unfortunate spread of Covid-19, online education was slowly spreading roots in India. The sheer scale and speed of the spread has helped to speed up its implementation across the country, and we are left with the question: Is online education the new norm going forward? Online education is already the norm in several countries across the globe with reputed foreign universities offering full-time degrees and certification courses with schools also promoting virtual learning from a nascent stage. It would not be an over exaggeration to state that India as an education system and a society needs to catch up and move forward in order to not lag behind the global trend. Online education in a country like India has the potential to connect a massive number of children from all sections of society, especially when we hear arguments of lack of enough schools and universities come up quite frequently in debates on education. The essence of any education system lies at...