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BOARD OF ADVISORS
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla T
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan, Dr. here’s considerable substance in the witticism that if you are be-
Nissar Ahmed (Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. low 30 years of age and not a communist/leftie you don’t have a
Augustine Pinto, Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala,
Kirit Mehta, Balkishan Sharma, Manjeet Kripalani heart; but if you are above 30 and a communist/leftist you don’t
(Mumbai); Dr. Ramdas Pai (Manipal); Prof. Geeta have a head. Therefore, it’s unsurprising that most students in
Kingdon (Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. Parth Shah,
Dr. C. Raj Kumar (Delhi); Vivek Shukla (Kolkata); the country’s higher education institutions (HEIs) are attracted
Yogi Kochhar (Dharamshala); Shyama Thakore to egalitarian working-class ideologies propagating distribution of societal
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goods according to people’s need, rather than greed.
EDITOR But as one ages, awareness dawns that before you can distribute goods
Dilip Thakore (and services) at scale, one has to produce them. This necessitates efficient
management of the factors of production — land, labour, capital — for which
MANAGING EDITOR
Summiya Yasmeen enterprise, the fourth factor is of critical importance. Most youngsters and left
ideologues don’t accord any weightage to this fourth factor.
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR Indeed it’s because of lack of awareness of the fourth factor that post-
Sundar Anand independence India’s national development effort went wrong. Like most
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EDITORIAL a spotlight on the showcase Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi (JNU,
C3-36, 3rd Floor, Devatha Plaza estb.1969) where despite the power of the BJP/NDA government at the Centre
131 Residency Road, Bangalore 560 025. ranged against it, a Left coalition of communist/socialist parties won the stu-
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Printed at Rajhans Enterprises, 134, 4th Main, In- mind that the newly-elected JNU Students Union leaders are presumably
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