IIT-KGP lands in a soup over calendar
The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) has released a statement clarifying that it is not associated with a 2024 calendar currently circulating on social media in its name.
The calendar, titled ‘India of the Ages: The Mother of Language, Culture & Civilization’, attempts to assert that India is the birthplace of practically everything in the world and that religion, science and culture are actually connected.
It ends with a note saying: “IIT Kharagpur has immense pleasure to present the Calendar of the Centre of Excellence for Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) for the year 2024. The aim of the calendar is to bring to light an array or pool of scientific and historical evidence to best stitch and interconnect apparently separate systems of religion, science and culture as One Single Global System of Humanity.”
However, the IIT has now disowned the calendar, saying in a ticker running across its official website: “The IKS Calendar of 2024 (India of the Ages), purported to be published by the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, presently under circulation in social media, is NOT an officially published calendar of IIT Kharagpur. Accordingly, the institute, or any of its authorities, owe no responsibility whatsoever for the veracity of its contents or any other issues arising from that place. The institute bears No Knowledge of the content that is represented in an individual capacity.”
