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June
17th 2007 – Hindustan Times – First page news –
"Oldest univ to be Bihar’s newest one –
Amartyasen to head global mentor group".
Today for me (and might be for million others)
this is not just news like any. I really don’t
have exact word to express my own feelings. A
day starting with this type of news is very rare
since last so many years. There are two part of
this news and each one has special meaning.
First part showing the vision, commitment and
professional approach of Mr Nitish Kumar. In the
second part, involvement of Mr. Amartya sen in
this project, shows how deeply and carefully Mr
Kumar is working on countless beneficial
projects. Definitely this will be a milestone
not only for him (as a CM) or Bihar but for the
whole country as well. It will be certainly a
new identity of Bihar. However, we also know
that Mr Kumar is fighting very hard to restore
the basic infrastructure like road, electricity,
health and education. All these are backbone for
the development of any state or country.
Unfortunately they remained untouched since last
so many decades.
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Being
born, brought up, educated and
having taught (initially) in Bihar,
I am specially proud of this great
news of restoration of the glories
of the ancient Magadh beginning with
the full excavation, restoration and
regeneration of the greatest
University of the ancient times that
Nalanda was. My salutes to Nitish
Kumar for undertaking this great
task of restoring modern Bihar to
its ancient glory and also for the
wisdom of choosing the best man to
lead the team to restructure this
great university to suit the
advanced world standard of academic
excellence in none other than the
Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen who was
born and educated initially in
Shanti Niketan of Rabindranath
Tagore who named him Amartya and
having spent all his life teaching
and living in the best universities
of the world and still teaching at
Harvard University as Lamont
Professor of Economics.
Anyone who has read his "The
Argumentative Indian", would be
amazed at the depth of scholarship
and all-round genius of this man who
was hailed by The Financial Times of
London with the words, "If there
ever was a man who could truly be
called a global intellectual, it is
Sen."
Not a bad tribute to an Indian
towering over the likes of Socrates,
Plato and down to the stalwarts of
modern times across the globe. Makes
us proud to be Indian and at the
same time most humble. - Ashok
Chatterjee, London - June 19, 2007 |
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