Seduced by Communism: How Amartya Sen Wrecked the Nalanda Revival
The comprehensive story of how Amartya Sen thoroughly botched up the revival of the Nalanda University using a mix of nepotism, incompetency and ad hoc functioning
PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI's speech delivered on the solemn occasion of the inauguration of the Nalanda University contained a nugget that caught my attention: "Nalanda is the proclamation of this truth: that books may burn in the flames of fire, but the flames of fire cannot destroy knowledge."
It is a contemporary echo of a timeless wisdom. Another …