Book Review: Can India’s public universities be remodelled? | P.S. Jayaramu

Reviewd by P.S. Jayaramu

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Remodelling the Universities:
Meeting Challenges of the 21st Century

by Srinivas K. Saidapur

(New Delhi, Atlantic Publishers, 2022, Pages189, Hard Bound, Price Rs. 795)

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(30th September, 2022)

The author of this book Dr. Srinivas K. Saidapur is a well known Scientist, thinker and educational administrator, having served Karnatak University, Dharwad, for long years as Professor of Zoology and Vice Chancellor. He is the recipient of many prestigious awards including the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize.

The book begins with a historical sketch of Indian universities, with an apt quote from Jawaharlal Nehru where, who said : “ A university stands for humanism, for tolerance, for reason, for adventure of ideas and for the search for truth...if the universities discharge their duties adequately, then it is well with the nation and the people