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Indian STEM folks generally come up the career ladder learning answers to questions that are already resolved. In many cases we are taught to work backwards from a known solution. This doesn't require someone to derive an idea from 1st principles or define new questions.
Indian STEM folks generally come up the career ladder learning answers to questions that are already resolved. In many cases we are taught to work backwards from a known solution. This doesn't require someone to derive an idea from 1st principles or define new questions.
So, we tend to take solutions for granted. Teachers train students to solve a multiple choice question on integration by taking the derivative of the 4 choices. No questions asked about what the two things physically mean, and to break the idea down to its fundamentals.
A bit chunk of scientific advancement is iterative, and a huge part of the challenge in fundamental science is defining a question. Qll this requires a training in deriving ideas bottom up, from the first principles.
This is one of the reasons why Indian techbros can embrace pseudoscience, ideas caste supremacy so easily, because they've never been trained to ask questions.
For desi techies, and people like Tejusu, religion is that already known solution that cannot be questioned.
Actual questioning of religious dogma and ideas like caste supremacy require the ability to ask questions bottom up without looking at it as a known solution.
Actual questioning of religious dogma and ideas like caste supremacy require the ability to ask questions bottom up without looking at it as a known solution.
Techies treat caste or superstition the way one treats established scientific fact, because hey what's the point in questioning the basics. They then borrow jargon from science to retrofit them into these ideas from religion, and brand it scientific. Hence, the love for Haggi.
Similar to how progress in science rooted in asking questions based on the first principles of natural sciences, the fundamentals of a human society must lie in the first principles of values such as liberty, justice and equality. Indians have appreciation for neither.
Introspection of what's wrong in ideas that are fed to us growing up requires you to question them based on principles such as justice or equality. Techie take the totally opposite approach of treating a regressive religious idea as fact and progressive values as an inconvenience
If an apple fell on an Indian techie's head, he or she would've used it to suggest how the idea of destiny just got proven. Why question the reason it fell down when it is destined to fall down some day?
