China’s output of scientific and engineering articles went up from just below India’s in 1995 to three times India’s output in 2005. And science and engineering are subjects where, as a result of Jawaharlal Nehru’s push, some of India’s universities are still first rate. More alarming, the economics departments in Indian universities have steadily lost their luster; gone are the days when a Jagdish Bhagwati, a Sukhamoy Chakravarty, an Amartya Sen, or a Manmohan Singh roamed the corridors of Indian universities. My humanities colleagues at the University of Chicago suggest that matters are
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