Modi Inspired Students With Mann Ki Baat. Can't He Reassure NEET-NET Aspirants?
Opinion | "Moving higher up the power structures that be, there is the country's prime minister with whom the buck must stop," writes Shashi Motilal.
By: SHASHI MOTILAL
The NEET-NET 'scam', as it gathers more traction, is turning out to be quite a potboiler — and this was expected. For, every issue in the country that adversely affects common people at large, and is duly exposed, eventually becomes a political slugfest. In the quagmire of political blame games, finger-pointing and sweeping generalisations, the concerns of the affected people are lost and they are left high and dry to the vagaries of what can be called ‘moral luck’.
For the examination, it does not matter whether you worked hard, very hard, or did not — it is all about your being at the ‘right’ place at the ‘right’ time and that is ‘moral luck’. If you were morally lucky, you are in, if not, you are out. And how ironic is this, to say the least, especially with respect to higher education that is going to produce doctors, engineers, teachers, researchers, skilled workers, i.e., the nation builders.
But, who and why must one speak up and intervene in the face of such scams playing havoc with the lives of young aspirants? And, what may be the reasons to maintain silence, if one chooses to do that?
Read the full opinion piece HERE.
(Dr. (Ms.) Shashi Motilal (Retd.) Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi, India, obtained her PhD from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, USA in 1986. She has been Visiting Faculty at the University of Akron, Ohio, USA and Carleton University, ON, Canada, TERI University, New Delhi and IIT/Delhi and IISP, New Delhi. This is an opinion piece and the views expressed above are the author’s own. The Quint neither endorses nor is responsible for the same.)
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