Only Good Faculty can Bring Colleges Up to Speed

Our policy makers poured in scarce resources into these institutes that were essentially pursuing what can be termed as art for the sake of art.

- Dinesh Singh Former Vice-Chancellor, Delhi University; Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, University of Houston, US

Our policy makers poured in scarce resources into these institutes that were essentially pursuing what can be termed as art for the sake of art. What our planners failed to realise is that the nursery of good research is always a university that has a plethora of young minds who need to be trained and inspired. Some years ago, I undertook a study of mathematical research in the US. I discovered two things; a vast majority of all research seemed to stem from the universities that have been at the forefront of the uses and applications of mathematics. I have been personally associated with a US university in terms of research and collaboration for many years and I have always wondered at how the mathematicians at that university have produced both kinds of research: blue sky an