Nilanjana Gupta:

From a period of colonization, we are now entering the period of globalization. And because of the imperial history of the world, the powers are still in the same places, which used to be the imperial powers, they are now the global powers. So the problem is that while we have come out of one system of exploitation, we have also entered another one. And because the power structures remain very similar in the sense of economic exploitation, in the sense of intellectual hierarchies, in the sense of power, because they remain the same, and of course, because we're talking about higher education, the language itself the language issue, because we used to learn English because that was the language of the colonizers. Now, we are learning English, because that is the global market language. So we are continuing in a big way, with the same kind of structures that actually were set in place by colonization. So I think it makes it even more difficult to talk about decolonizing because on the one hand, we want to decolonize; on the other hand, we also want to be part of the global economy, the global social networks that are happening, all the various technological things that are happening around us, all the jobs that are more available to us. So, it's become very difficult to now talk about having something independent of these two tendencies and to talk about decolonization. So I think it's a very, very difficult question to even think of how can we go ahead.