A Western DEI Experiment India Did not Need: From Viksit Bharat to WokeShit Bharat

Failures of Imported DEI/Woke Frameworks

Imported (failed Western experiments) DEI theories are being applied to India without regard for its unique social and civilizational history. These frameworks prioritise caste identity and perceived injustice over merit, competence, and outcomes. The Government of India seems to be lost on whether they want to eradicate caste-based identities (batenge to katenge) or hyper-sensationalise caste on campuses. 

Unequal outcomes are assumed to be proof of systemic oppression, rather than differences in opportunity or preparation. The assumption is that “upper” castes are always the oppressors and lower castes the oppressed. Education’s foundational purpose—excellence, capability, and nation-building—is being deliberately and systematically weakened.

NEET-PG: Dilution of Merit in Medicine

NEET-PG qualifying cut-offs were reduced to historically low levels (the -40 example) to fill vacant seats. This race to the bottom will keep producing a low-performing citizenry. This move was framed as “inclusion,” but effectively treats high standards as exclusionary. Blindly taking verbiage from the West without any context has landed Bharat in hot water. In medicine, lowering standards directly endangers patient safety. Merit and competence are sacrificed in the name of symbolic inclusion. Often, a fake hierarchy is introduced where none exists, and then these solutions are offered as a panacea for problems that do not yet exist.

Campus DEI Mechanisms & Surveillance

Merit is reframed as “privilege,” rather than effort or ability. There is no real mechanism to account for students’ economic conditions. Upper-caste students—many of whom are not economically privileged—are penalised for merit/achievement. Universities are being instructed to form diversity/equity squads to monitor discrimination, report subjective bias on campus, and forcefully enforce the idea of fake inclusion. These function as internal surveillance bodies mandated by the UGC and the Ministry of Education. This will increase unnecessary bureaucracies on campuses, a disaster evident in the West. No clear safeguards exist against the subjective or selective targeting of non-SC/ST students.

NCERT Textbook Revisions & Ideological Indoctrination

There is a fascination in India with going woke across every sector. This is evident in the media, films, and even the Supreme Court, where bathrooms are supposedly made for multiple genders without addressing the need for bathrooms in general, period. Gender and sexuality content increasingly mirrors failed Western discourse. While folks have been waiting for decades to balance out the Mughal crap in books, NCERT revisions get worse. 

Cultural context is ignored, and gender studies and other failed critical theories – Marxist-based products of the Frankfurt school – are injected for STEM students and IIT and other campuses, producing generations of deracinated graduates. Content is often imposed rather than debated or discussed. This move leaves little room for disagreement or plurality of views. Even professors could be targeted if they give a “lower” caste student bad grades. Functions as ideological indoctrination that functions like a termite, eating institutions, subject areas, and society as a whole, producing sub-par graduates.

Reservations, SC/ST Laws, and Institutional Fear

Reservation policies continue to expand without reassessment.

The SC/ST Act: Presumes guilt of the “upper” castes and is vulnerable to misuse, as evidenced by cases. This act leaves little room for due process. Professors fear failing students from protected categories, live in fear of false accusations of discrimination, and of facing legal consequences for simply doing their jobs. Academic standards are compromised due to institutional intimidation and a culture of fear and shame.

Anti–Upper Caste Targeting 

Growing anti-Brahmin and anti–upper caste rhetoric in academic spaces exists, and will become exacerbated. Collective blame replaces individual responsibility, and these policies encourage resentment for no real reason. This copy/paste from the West is totally unwarranted, as in the West, the white man is labelled as being ugly and evil, and in India, no white man exists, so the Marxists have falsely equated Brahmins and the upper caste as the white man bogey. Again, creating a fake problem and then imposing an unnecessary solution undermines academic integrity and careers. Overall, this change undermines India’s pluralistic civilizational fabric.

Babus, Ministers, and other Culprits

These disastrous policies are driven by the Ministry of Education, NCERT committees, UGC, and regulatory bodies. Coopted or clueless bureaucrats have gotten away with accelerating the woke downfall of Bharat. One guy is set to receive the Padma Bhusan! They are shaped by a narrow pool of ideologically aligned academics. Furthermore, implemented top-down, with no public consultation, no space for dissent, and no democratic feedback loop. The elites on either side have converged on the idea of modernity and progress. 

Long-Term Consequences and Western Precedents

The long-term consequences of DEI-driven educational restructuring are already visible in the West and should serve as a warning for India, but the government of India is obviously hell-bent on accelerating the fall of its civilization. Across U.S. universities, the prioritisation of identity over ability and symbolism over substance has coincided with declining academic standards, legal challenges, and institutional paralysis—so much so that elite institutions like the University of Michigan, the University of Virginia, and entire state university systems have begun dismantling DEI offices and abandoning diversity mandates. Only India is dumb enough to take the West’s sell-by-date ideas and implement them where there is no real need for reform.

Mandatory DEI statements, lowered admissions standards, and ideological surveillance mechanisms have weakened academic rigour, stopped free inquiry, and fostered resentment. Despite massive financial investment, U.S. universities report no clear improvements in belonging or outcomes. At the same time, campus polarisation has intensified, and civil rights violations have multiplied (see all the protests and activism news coming from campuses). 

When DEI-style frameworks enter high-stakes fields such as medicine, engineering, and infrastructure, abstract ideology turns into real harm—producing medical incompetence, regulatory failure, and loss of professional trust—as seen in the U.S., a logic India now mirrors by lowering education standards with literally fatal consequences. Bridges will collapse, and patients will unnecessarily die. These policies are pushing India’s best talent and upper castes overseas if they can, draining the country of its skills, innovation, and the very people needed to sustain its future. No one in government has had the foresight (or perhaps they have!) to see what India will need to do to neutralize the subpar functioning. They will need to import people of merit, most likely from countries that have not been termite-hollowed by DEI. i.e., Islamic theocracies. 

Instead of examining global failures of DEI, Indian policymakers are importing failed Western experiments wholesale, disguising ideological Abrahamism as modernity and progress. With these woker-than-thou, Marxist-driven policies, the government seems determined to alienate even its most loyal voters. The result is not Viksit Bharat, but WokeShit Bharat—an education system that weaponises society against civilizational cohesion and perpetuates the Macaulay project under the false guise of inclusion. These ideas are based on Abrahamic notions of justice and moral duty—warped through a lens of oppression—claiming to rectify hierarchies and protect the marginalised while undermining merit and tradition. Suicidal ideas for a dharmic society. How long before the government realises it has deliberately steered India into systematic incompetence and inevitable chaos?