Mr. Laapataa

  DOUBLE STANDARDS When our papers get rejected, we cry 'racism and discrimination'. But when we review papers, we are not behind anyone in applying the same discrimination. What double-standards!

It's often assumed that all western universities are  by-default  superior and that Indian education system is by default is steeped in corruption. While it's can't be completely devoid of truth, it also is a debilitating bias. It's more rampant than you might think. This assumption leads to selective observations leading to further confirmation bias – a classic example vicious cycle. This leads to many issues: harder reviews of scholarly work and unwillingness of scholars of Indian origin educated in other countries to seek jobs in India.

Often, overreliance on so-called objective measures robs us of our own power of judgement.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Dear friends of Mr. Laapataa. As many of you know, Mr. Laapataa cartoon strips are currently published in Confluence -- An editorially moderated discussion forum from Indian Academy of Sciences. You can find the strips published so far here: http://confluence.ias.ac.in/cartoon-series-one-among-us/ We try to publish the strips in as many Indian languages as possible. The translation quality is important, both for the delivery of humour, as well as to ensure that they are linguistically correct and are not accidentally offensive. We depend on our personal network and benevolent contributors to get the translations done. If you follow Mr. Laapataa's comics regularly, and think you could contribute to the translation efforts in future, please send a personal message to Mr. Laapataa's page (through Facebook messenger) or WhatsApp me directly. Please mention the language(s) you would be able to translate to. We will get in touch with you with more details. Mr. Laapataa's Facebo