I was taking leave from Dr. Swadhin Pattanaik, Director, Institute
of Mathematics and Applications (IMA) after finishing checking my
e-mail, when we met a lady. She came to get comfort from Swadhin
Babu who persuaded her daughter to join IISER, Kolkata this year,
rather than going after usual craze of joining IIT.
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For close to 60 years to help schedule castes and schedule tribes who are severely underrepresented among Indians with higher education degrees, India has had reservations for them in various institutions across the country, usually in places far away from where the target population lives. So far, like Mullah Nasruddin, outside of northeast, India has not strategically established central institutions in places where the target population actually lives.
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I was in India during December 12th-Jan 13th. Hence the long hiatus. Part of this time I was not able to access this site. I will slowly start positing on various things that happened since my last posting.
There has been very good progress in the NISER front. A web page for it has been created.
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