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Anti-national persecution dice. For several years your editors have been bombard-
ing letters, emails and other appeals upon Nadar for the
tiny favour of signing up his several education institutions
T’S INDICATIVE OF THE NAIVETE OF THE INDIAN
intelligentsia and media that they haven’t smelt an as subscribers (Rs.2,500 per annum) of this publication
IAmerican Deep State rat in the persecution of India’s and perhaps confer a few crumbs of his laden table by
way of advertising. Alas, without response.
premier infrastructure builder Gautam Adani. In Febru-
Perhaps busy with donating Rs.5.9 crore per day,
ary last year, Hindenburg Research, a US-based self-con- Nadar is unaware that Nadar institution academics rou-
fessed short-seller firm with five employees and no fixed
address, charged Adani with using offshore shell com- tinely rain press releases, essays and interview requests
panies to drive up prices of listed shares of Adani Group upon this struggling publication, some of which have
been published free of charge. Moreover, at the recent
companies to enable the tycoon to inflate his borrowing
limits. Now the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed EW India School Ranking Awards staged in Delhi, Col.
Karunakaran — Nadar’s trusted lieutenant/emissary —
charges against Adani for raising finance in the US to
bribe government officials in India — a grave transgres- was present to receive awards and free-of-charge five-star
sion of American law. This is rich considering American hospitality on behalf of Shiv Nadar School, Gurugram
ranked among the Top 5 co-ed schools countrywide.
firms and government agencies such as the CIA (Central
According to the Hurun India list this IT tycoon is
Intelligence Agency) are past masters of bribery and sub- brimming over with charitable impulses. Yet our experi-
orning individuals and governments abroad.
Why are Yanks and closet communists in India — and ence is quite the contrary.
especially the Congress party’s hereditary leader Ra-
hul Gandhi — after Adani’s blood? Because Adani has Infrastructure importance
emerged as India’s most successful infrastructure builder
— seaports, airports, highways, cement, green energy and
conventional power plants — and has started winning in- NE OF THE REASONS WHY HIGHER ED aca-
frastructure construction projects all over the world, and demics tend to scorn this upstream-swimming
his efficient companies are threatening American firms. Opublication is your editors’ unrelenting insistence
A charge that business illiterate Bolshies routinely for the quarter century past, to raise annual national
make against Adani is that he is being heavily backed outlay (Centre plus states) for education to 6 percent of
by the BJP/ NDA government at the Centre and Prime GDP as recommended by the high-powered Kothari Com-
Minister Modi in particular. Evidently they are unaware mission way back in 1967, and to allocate a major share of
that post-war Japan’s zaibatsu companies and Korea’s it to early childhood and primary education. Against this,
chaebols which are now global conglomerates, were even the foolish neta-babu brotherhood which has ruled this
closer to and more heavily backed by government. Nor unfortunate country with an iron hand since indepen-
have they figured out that the Adani Group is India’s an- dence, has averaged a mere 3.5 percent. This fatal negli-
swer to China’s transnational Belt and Road Initiative. gence has reduced post-independent India to an also-ran
Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi is amazed that in the global development race.
Modi promotes Adani companies abroad. Surely it’s part The majority of academic dons punch drunk with
of his job description? Unfortunately this prize duffer is bankrupt communist ideology, argue that “input doesn’t
still wrapped in the socialist era mindset during which the result in output” and “expenditure efficiency” are magic
PM was obliged to equally promote Indian — especially mantras of the education sector. However your editors
public sector — companies abroad. Even if they brought believe that given the extraordinary self-learning capabili-
disgrace to the country with shoddy project execution. ties of India’s children, if provided supportive, enabling
infrastructure, they could suo motu transform the country
into a high-productivity nation.
Prejudiced philanthropist and games are testimony to the self-learning capabilities
Latter day success stories from the world of sports
of India’s children and youth. In cricket, Yeshsahvi
CCORDING TO THE RECENTLY PUBLISHED Jaiswal was obliged to sleep rough in the maidans of
EdelGive-Hurun India Philanthropy List, digital
Atech tycoon Shiv Nadar, promoter-chairman of Mumbai and vend snacks and savouries, before his
self-learning capability transformed him into a global
HCL Ltd (market valuation: Rs.5.13 trillion) is India’s
most generous philanthropist having donated Rs.2,153 batting sensation. Moreover from Bihar, India’s most
crore (Rs.5.9 crore per day) to mainly education chari- educationally backward state, 13-year-old Vaibhav
Suryavanshi has emerged as another batting superstar.
table causes in 2024. Runner-up Azim Premji, promoter-
Chairman of Wipro Ltd with Rs.1,000 crore and Mukesh Dozens of stars in other sports have emerged as world
champions without any infrastructure or other support
Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries with Rs.407
crore are distant second and third respectively. from government in their formative K-12 years.
Curiously although the Nadars’ munificence is centred We believe that if provided half-decent enabling
around education — Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noi- infrastructure in government schools which have an
da, Shiv Nadar School, Gurgaon and Faridabad and SSN aggregate enrolment of 1.4 million children per year,
India could produce millions of world champions. Pity the
University, Kalavakkam, Tamil Nadu — all unsparingly
constructed and furbished model institutions of learning, neta-babu brotherhood and their compliant apologists in
this champion of education is not above irrational preju- the academy can’t figure this out.

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