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BOARD OF ADVISORS
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla F
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan rom Prime Minister Modi downward, India’s entire political
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, class and the establishment keep proclaiming from the rooftops
Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, Kirit Mehta, Balkishan
Sharma (Mumbai); Dr. Ramdas Pai (Manipal); that the 21st century is India’s, and attaining the PM’s Viksit
Prof. Geeta Kingdon (Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. (‘developed’) Bharat and $30 trillion (cf. $4 trillion) goals is an
Parth Shah, Jeroninio Almeida (Delhi); Dr. Kannan
Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra Subba (Kurseong); inevitability. But the plain truth is that in 75 years since indepen-
Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. Achyuta Samanta dence, Indian higher education institutions comprising 45,000 undergrad col-
(Bhubaneswar); Yogi Kochhar (Dharamshala); leges and 1,100 universities, haven’t ideated and produced even one globally
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The depressing reality is that although India’s higher education institutions
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