What if the real crisis in English Studies isn’t its irrelevance, but the outdated questions we keep asking about it? Instead of worrying whether students can quote Milton or clear an exam, what if we asked:  Can they read a deepfake? Decode a meme? Challenge a biased algorithm?  This isn’t just a blog about saving a discipline—it’s an invitation to reimagine its future. Read on, and ask not what English Studies  was , but what it  can become . We live in an era where buzzwords like  skills ,  outcomes , and  employability  dominate the academic conversation. Neoliberalism has recast education into a marketplace where degrees are sold as investments and students are treated as future workers in training. Within this landscape, English Studies is being nudged—if not shoved—toward obsolescence. More and more universities, both in India and abroad, are questioning its relevance. Often, its only perceived value lies in its capacity to turn students in...