The National Institutional Ranking Framework has named Delhi’s Hindu College as the best in the country in arts and science streams. It is a well-deserved distinction based on its academic standards, the role played by its campus societies and its placement records.
The name of the college also brings out the peculiar Indian practice of linking education with religion. This is a regressive approach, started during the colonial period by selfish Christian missionaries. In Oxford or Cambridge, Harvard or Stanford, France’s Sorbonne or Sweden’s Karolinska, religion
was never thrust into the nomenclature of educational institutions. How did it become part and parcel of Indian culture?