Srinagar, Jan. 13 -- The long colonial legacy of education in our country had systematically excluded our great tradition of learning and made us live in a state of Induced Ignorance in which our learners were severed from their cultural heritage and knowledge resulted in distorted version of knowledge and suppression of indigenous or autochthonous Indian thought and eventually we lost access to our own knowledge system.

NEP 2020 and NCF's came as a panacea seeks to change agnotology into knowledge pride. While NEP promising a vision, its implementation faces umpteen challenges including some fallacies rooted in IKS.

India, a land rich in discoveries and wonders has a long history of several intellectual inquiry. Ancient travellers such...