Our Universities, Our Leaders and Foreign Universities Recently the media in India has reported about two events at ‘ University of California, Berkeley’ and at the ‘ Center for International Security Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University’. At these events, the Vice-President of Congress party spoke to a group of students and Faculty Members about the political issues in India . “720 years back, the ‘President’ of the world’s largest university, which attracted scholars from far and wide, was informed by his assistant that many horsemen were riding towards the university. The President waived his assistant off by saying that every horseman knew that he had to respect the university and that he should enter the university on foot, after tying the horse at the gate of the university. Within a few hours, there was a slaughter of more than 10,000 scholars and 3,000 Faculty Members by the 500 horsemen, led by Bakhtiar Khilji,...
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