This session was completley inclusive and understandable while discussing the concept of religion, laws in western and dharma , morality in eastern. Your way of teaching was very effective. Thank you Sir Keep us enlightening who don't have professors like you.
The era of Post Colonialism could never be explained better! Dr. Thakur has discussed this topic in a very elaborated manner making this video a knowledge-store for students of Humanities. I thank the publishers for this helpful lecture! Shashank Seth, Student at Glocal School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Glocal University, U.P. India
This Marxist scholar is a fierce critic of colonialism and the inadequacy of Western thought in the Eastern context. But he probably spent 80% of his monologue in repetitious cycles. Like a mantra or a chant, it lulls the listener into an unthinking state, believing that some enlightenment and salvation may come at the end. None did for me! Dr M N Thakur had plenty of time to explain what the Eastern knowledge systems are that colonialism destroyed or suppressed. Did many Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists and Jains stop doing what their ancestors had expected them to? I doubt it! Did temples and mosques get repurposed into churches or shopping centres? Clearly not, given the amount of money even the poor lavish on their places of worship. Was all prior knowledge erased from India's collective memory? If so, surely some 70+ years after independence, someone would have drawn up a list of this lost knowledge. How about you Dr Thkakur? According to Dr Thakur, 'Knowledge' is only known and practised by "the people" or "the masses" and he feels that this type of knowledge is superior. Because academics are steeped in inferior Western thought, right? OK, so why is he not happy. in 2015 India had a literacy rate of under 73% (15% lower than Myanmar). Here are some countries with a higher literacy rate: Uganda, Eritrea, Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana, DR Congo, Kenya, Comoros, Cambodia, Guatemala, Lesotho, Algeria, Iraq. So India must be doing better by the Thakur Index because if you are illiterate, you are more likely to be confined to 'traditional indigenous knowledge, right? Does Dr Thakur enlighten or empower us with how India can address its appaling record on poverty, infant mortality, malnutrition, corruption, communal violence and why India's women are not safe carrying out their daily lives? Was it the English Man who he quotes, who asked him a question in a way that does not make sense and no native English speaker would use? Or the American who thought it problematic to belittle your children in front of strangers? (Both of these were given as examples of how Indian understanding is better). I think the many educated Indians who have fled to the West would not agree with this nonsense - except for the few who make a business out of being professional anti-colonialists (or whatever!). Dr Thakur, like many academics in fields like cultural studies, sociology, and political science (!) make a career out of spewing nonsense for a long period of time. Do you think I'm wrong? At the end of this self-indulgent outpouring, Thakur cites Foucault more than once. This is not Guru Ramprakash Foucault or Swami Mahadev Foucault, but Michel Foucault a French philosopher! This promotion of 'feeling' over the scientific method, is much in vogue in the West too. So perhaps Dr Thakur and his secular Swamis have the last laugh after all.
Very simple way of teaching and effectively clearing every doubts of PC. Well learned and a complete Prof.
This session was completley inclusive and understandable while discussing the concept of religion, laws in western and dharma , morality in eastern. Your way of teaching was very effective.
Thank you Sir
Keep us enlightening who don't have professors like you.
From watching all ur you tube lectures to attend ur class in cps is truly a dream that has come true.....the best thing that can happen to me....❤️
The era of Post Colonialism could never be explained better!
Dr. Thakur has discussed this topic in a very elaborated manner making this video a knowledge-store for students of Humanities.
I thank the publishers for this helpful lecture!
Shashank Seth,
Student at Glocal School of Humanities & Social Sciences,
Glocal University, U.P. India
plz put english subtitles to his speech
thakur is the man
Sir hindi language me lecture please
This Marxist scholar is a fierce critic of colonialism and the inadequacy of Western thought in the Eastern context. But he probably spent 80% of his monologue in repetitious cycles. Like a mantra or a chant, it lulls the listener into an unthinking state, believing that some enlightenment and salvation may come at the end. None did for me!
Dr M N Thakur had plenty of time to explain what the Eastern knowledge systems are that colonialism destroyed or suppressed. Did many Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists and Jains stop doing what their ancestors had expected them to? I doubt it! Did temples and mosques get repurposed into churches or shopping centres? Clearly not, given the amount of money even the poor lavish on their places of worship. Was all prior knowledge erased from India's collective memory? If so, surely some 70+ years after independence, someone would have drawn up a list of this lost knowledge. How about you Dr Thkakur?
According to Dr Thakur, 'Knowledge' is only known and practised by "the people" or "the masses" and he feels that this type of knowledge is superior. Because academics are steeped in inferior Western thought, right? OK, so why is he not happy. in 2015 India had a literacy rate of under 73% (15% lower than Myanmar). Here are some countries with a higher literacy rate: Uganda, Eritrea, Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana, DR Congo, Kenya, Comoros, Cambodia, Guatemala, Lesotho, Algeria, Iraq. So India must be doing better by the Thakur Index because if you are illiterate, you are more likely to be confined to 'traditional indigenous knowledge, right?
Does Dr Thakur enlighten or empower us with how India can address its appaling record on poverty, infant mortality, malnutrition, corruption, communal violence and why India's women are not safe carrying out their daily lives? Was it the English Man who he quotes, who asked him a question in a way that does not make sense and no native English speaker would use? Or the American who thought it problematic to belittle your children in front of strangers? (Both of these were given as examples of how Indian understanding is better). I think the many educated Indians who have fled to the West would not agree with this nonsense - except for the few who make a business out of being professional anti-colonialists (or whatever!).
Dr Thakur, like many academics in fields like cultural studies, sociology, and political science (!) make a career out of spewing nonsense for a long period of time. Do you think I'm wrong? At the end of this self-indulgent outpouring, Thakur cites Foucault more than once. This is not Guru Ramprakash Foucault or Swami Mahadev Foucault, but Michel Foucault a French philosopher! This promotion of 'feeling' over the scientific method, is much in vogue in the West too. So perhaps Dr Thakur and his secular Swamis have the last laugh after all.