For high quality Universities: Academics value academic freedom. They must have a central role in university governance April 13, 2021, 7:23 AM IST
Bhagwan Chowdhry and Deepa Mani
The recent exit of Pratap Bhanu Mehta from Ashoka University has put the spotlight on the role of universities and academic freedom and expression in modern India. As we usher in private investments and effect policies to allow foreign universities to open campuses and raise the standards of higher education in the country, it becomes critical to understand how these institutions of higher education should be governed to create 21st century equivalents of Oxford and Harvard.
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During the Greater Hyderabad municipal corporation elections late last year, home minister Amit Shah said something interesting that was lost in the din of local demands. Months after the KCR government in the state had.
India joined Australia, Japan and the United States a couple of weeks back for a ministerial meeting of the quadrilateral grouping – the Quad – which underscored its commitment to “to upholding a rules-based international.
A great intoxication: Tulsidas and Ghalib outline this ultimate truth about the alchemy of power February 26, 2021, 8:05 PM IST
The writer is an author and former diplomat
Sometimes, the greatest wisdoms lie embedded in the insights of the past. Tulsidas (1532-1623), uttered the ultimate verity about the alchemy of power: ‘Nahin kou asa janma jaga mahin, prabhuta pai jahi mada nahi.’ Never was a creature born in this world, whom power did not intoxicate. Why does this happen? Is there something intrinsic in the way power operates, or is the vulnerability latent in the individual, or is it the evil that occurs when the two combine?