BJP MP Rakesh Sinha on Friday proposed setting up a research foundation at the State and district level to revive ancient Indian knowledge traditions, branding it as a “ swaraj (self rule) of ideas’.
However, the Opposition tore through the resolution, calling it an attempt to revive Brahminical cultural hegemony.
Mr. Sinha, moving a private member’s resolution, urged the government that institutes should be built on the lines of the National Research Foundation that could work on resuscitating the “ground breaking” work that was done in ancient India which was neglected becasue of sense of inferiority created by the colonial masters.
