Myth Over Math: UGC’s Blueprint for Academic Suicide
Tata Sivaih | 05 October 2025 | Countercurrents.org
Remember when mathematics meant proofs, theorems, problem-solving, logic, and rigor? Well, buckle up: the UGC’s new draft curriculum wants to replace Euclid and Euler with Kala Ganana, Bharatiya Bijaganit, and divine digressions through the Purāṇas and Darshanas.
Yes, your future calculus course might begin with:
“Let us first consult the Narada Purāṇa to derive the quadratic formula.”
The UGC has published a draft curriculum for undergraduate Mathematics degrees which is capable of destroying mathematics teaching in the whole country—and thereby crippling the nation’s scientific and intellectual future.
This isn’t reform; it’s regression with Sanskrit subtitles…