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BOARD OF ADVISORS
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla I f you believe, as I do, that the growth and development of national
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan economies is dependent on the quality of their universities, India’s
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, prospects of attaining the goals of Viksit Bharat and $30 trillion
Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, Kirit Mehta, Balkishan
Sharma (Mumbai); Dr. Ramdas Pai (Manipal); economy by 2047, the centenary year of our independence, are dim.
Prof. Geeta Kingdon (Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. Because the track record of India’s 1,168 modern universities —
Parth Shah, Dr. C. Raj Kumar (Delhi); Dr. Kannan
Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra Subba (Kurseong); some of which were established 150 years ago — in developing great
Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. Achyuta Samanta thinkers, especially great inventors, scientists and engineers, is poor. Indeed
(Bhubaneswar); Yogi Kochhar (Dharamshala); it’s difficult to recall any game-changer invention, product, service or disrup-
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tive technology emerging from the shady bowers of Indian academia. During
EDITOR the past quinquennium, 22-28 million students and over 2 million faculty have
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been attending classes, workshops and seminars every year in the country’s
MANAGING EDITOR 47,000 undergrad colleges and 1,168 universities. But all their mountain
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of labour has failed to produce any earth-shattering product or technology.
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR Consequently the multitude problems that plagued newly independent India
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