Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Nalanda misses trophy scholars | The Telegraph

Nalanda misses trophy scholars | The Telegraph: "Two of India’s finest intellectual-academicians — Ramchandra Guha and Pratap Bhanu Mehta — passed up offers to accept the vice-chancellorship of Nalanda International University (NIU), Bihar’s flagship knowledge project.

Charge of the NIU will formally be handed over to Nobel laureate and chairperson of the NIU Mentor Group, Amartya Sen, by Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on February 5.

Only last month, artist Subodh Gupta, himself a product of Patna Arts College, had told this reporter during a private visit to Bihar that much as he’d like to, conditions in the state do not inspire him to set up an arts facility."

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