[Assam] GOI donation to Harvard

[umesh sharma]

GOI donations are always suspicion generating - political decisions. Mr Sen comes to Harvard to honor another Mr Sen . An economist Indian head ( Indian Prime Minister) approves honoring another Economist and donates millions ---hmmm.

It should have been more broad based -- inlcuding all schools at Harvard  - inlcuding medical school, public health school, engineering, education etc etc.

Further, if it left to the GOI to decide who would get the schols - then God help the applicants who have no political connections -- as I lost out to a guy going to do bio-ethics at some Trinity International Univ - when I had to apply to India's HRD ministry for UNESCO schol(I came to know just in time - 3 days ) . A Sharma from lost to a Delhi based Sharma (perhaps related to the Mr Sharma - the IAS secretary deciding it ).

Further, the public should generated a chair - Indian Americans or ....

Umesh

--- On Sat, 20/12/08, Dilip and Dil Deka <dilipdeka at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Dilip and Dil Deka <dilipdeka at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Assam] GOI donation to Harvard
> To: "A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world" <assam at assamnet.org>, umesh.sh05 at post.harvard.edu
> Date: Saturday, 20 December, 2008, 11:04 PM
> To Economics knowldge bank - umm, about 0.1 %. Economics
> knowledge bank is about, let's say,  0.001 % of world
> knowledge bank.
> So that makes it about 0.0001% of world knowledge bank.
> Am I off the mark by much?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: mc mahant <mikemahant at hotmail.com>
> To: umesh.sh05 at post.harvard.edu; assam at assamnet.org
> Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 8:52:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [Assam] GOI donation to Harvard
> 
> 
> Why don't you educate us  in about 500 words :
> Amartya Sen's Contribution to the World's knowledge
> bank.
> mm> Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:29:13 -0800> From:
> jaipurschool at yahoo.com> To: assam at assamnet.org>
> Subject: [Assam] GOI donation to Harvard> >
> http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/12.18/11-india.html>
> > Umesh Sharma> > Washington D.C. > >
> 1-202-215-4328 [Cell]> > Ed.M. - International
> Education Policy> Harvard Graduate School of
> Education,> Harvard University,> Class of 2005>
> > http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu
> info)> > http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info)>
> > > > > www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the above
> 2 are used )> http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/> >
> > > http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/> > > >
> > >
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