India has given birth to several great personalities and those personalities have never faced any hesitations of “Indian identiy” at international level. Since their own bright persona was more than sufficient to overcome the dark of Indian background.

I am not saying whether you lack something, but I would say that you are responsible for your own perceptions, experiences and feelings, not those who refer you as an “Indian” while being in Swedish society. So best advise that you should first place yourself under microscope to find out your “indian” limitations to try to get the rid of them.

How then, should one rationally act to maintain and improve standards of teaching and research? Use the resources at the Departments! People there are much better positioned for this task than outside “pedagogs” for at least two main reasons:
1. They have a lot more concrete tangible data to go on, regarding the performance of people as teachers and supervisors – there are student evaluations, feedback, commentsfrom teaching assistants, studierektors … They also know who participates in new initiatives, group discussions etc in the Department to develop curricula, new courses etc. In short, they know their own people much better.
2. People within the Department also know best the specific nature of their own discipline which calls for special ways to address them. Unlike the “pedgogs”, I don’t subscribe to the “one size fits all” theory. Whether you teach Math, CS, Physics, Chemistry … etc. makes a big difference on how you’re going to do it. In particular, as anybody sensible in CS would tell you, this discipline needs its own special way of approaching issues, right from introductory programming, to more abstract theoretical models to advanced systems building.

We are preparing a much more systematic document on this subject which we hope to bring to the attention of the AK soon.