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Study of Excellence
Ashok Mitra’s review of Sulabha Brahme’s book on D R Gadgil’s writings discusses two icons of India, Prasant Chandra Mahalanobis and Dhananjayrao Gadgil (EPW, 15 October 2011). As a follow-up to his review, I would like to urge researchers to pursue a dispassionate analysis of what happened to excellence at the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE) and also at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI, Calcutta) left behind by these two icons of Indian planning.
Ashok Mitra’s review of Sulabha Brahme’s book on D R Gadgil’s writings discusses two icons of India, Prasant Chandra Mahalanobis and Dhananjayrao Gadgil (EPW, 15 October 2011). As a follow-up to his review, I would like to urge researchers to pursue a dispassionate analysis of what happened to excellence at the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE) and also at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI, Calcutta) left behind by these two icons of Indian planning. I had the good fortune to be a student of the Masters in Statistics at the ISI for three years in the late 1960s and later a research scholar at the GIPE when both of these stalwarts were alive and the institutions were also at their peak.
Have these institutions maintained that excellence over time? And if they have not, what were the factors that led to the fall in standards?
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