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on 15-Jul-02 08:05 PM
Work abroad for respect at home
DIPANKAR GUPTA
[ MONDAY, JULY 15, 2002 9:56:02 PM ]
It seems just the other day when the authors we read about on India in college were all in India. Whether economics, history, sociology or political science, all the big guns in the Indian academic firmament were firmly rooted in the country. D D Kosambi, Susobhan Sarkar, M N Srinivas… the list can go on.
I am sure that those readers of TOI who are 40 and above today would have had a similar experience when they were in college and university. I do not think there was any Indian scholar of repute who wrote on India, and whose books were prescribed in Indian universities, who was not employed by some Indian university or research institution.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?artid=16091565
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