This interview with Kapil Sibal would mean a great deal – only if it can be backed up by some real action. Of course – to go with it, they will certify Madrassa cottage bomb-making as a legitimate education, which no doubt earns the “oppressed” the right to be employed in software.
Nonetheless - It does not take too long for the world to notice
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124465950779502993.html?mod=googlenews_wsj#articleTabs%3Darticle
this shows India has a lot of buyer power which it can leverage. I hope we can lure high class Indian professors back from American universities. I also hope that the NRI community will be generous with endowments
if this works - at least we will not be paying to get murdered in convict-land
2 comments:
rajeev,
I could not accept your stance.. why is that we have always open our country to foreign for everything?
Dont we have the enough of skills and talent to nurture a high quality education institution home grown?
Why dont the government open up, indian education system, and why anything foreign is always given full freedom, and anything indian is handicapped with full of restriction?
This is the height of colonial mindset, and total lack of self-confidence..
We dont behave like a self-respecting indians..
Firstly – that post was mine and not Rajeev’s.
Second - I am not really sure why you are getting your knickers in a twist. Part of the blog talks about luring back world-beating Indian faculty and NRI’s contributing to endowments.
Like you I would dearly love to see world class education institutions in India. I am reminded of the greatest universities in the world – Takshashila, Nalanda and Odantapuri – so cruelly burnt down by the scorched-earth policies of the invading Mohammedans.
The associated WSJ article I pointed to was to burnish our strength as a buyer, which we can leverage. Finally – it has to be admitted that the Americans right now have the best University system in the world. There is no use denying it – you may want to beat them (which is great), but I see no harm in them giving you a helping hand in doing so.
I am all for throwing off the colonial-complex; but sometimes we do over-compensate and feel that the only way of taking pride in being Indian is in rejecting the other (more specifically the West). I admire your passion – for it is born out of love for India. However, do reflect on what comes after passion!
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