Inner Light for the Intellect

Last month,my young nephew who is now in the last year of his high school came to visitme for a few days. And inone of our conversations about his studiesandhis future academic plans the topic swerved over to more serious stuff. We discussed questions such as:why compulsory schooling, why study certain subjects, and finally, who isan intellectual.

This post is about the last question, though the others are equally interesting. But given some of the current context in the country, it makes se...