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Bidyut Chakraborty

Tunnel-vision

Setting up of a second campus and a change of name can only obfuscate the core of the crisis, which as yet remains unaddressed. The theft of Tagore’s Nobel medal is a crime that has been hanging fire for the past 18 years (March 2004). The authorities must of necessity get to the root of the malaise. To rename Visva-Bharati University is at best a half-hearted attempt at self-preservation; at worst a cosmetic change that will not improve Visva-Bharati

Helming Visva-Bharati

A technically rudderless central university finally has an academic at the helm. The fact that Visva-Bharati University had to make…