Shashi Tharoor, MP, has raised caution against attempts being made of late to employ liberal arts for insidious purposes such as by converting history into an instrument to legitimise a Hindutva-aligned version of the past.
He was delivering a keynote address on the ‘Future of higher education in India’ during a lecture series organised as part of the Kerala University Researchers’ Festival that is under way on the Karyavattom campus on Tuesday.
While exhorting the academic community to nurture graduates who are flexible in their thought process and are appreciative of new knowledge, Dr. Tharoor said he feared growing threats that had taken root in the sector.
