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Charaiveti: An academic's journey-12

History has repeatedly shown that, in academia as in the world of politics, doctrinal differences between the far-left and the social democrats can lead to irreversible damage

James Meade
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As I was going to specialise in International Trade Theory, the professor who was assigned to supervise me was James Meade (pictured; later to get the Nobel Prize in that field). He was an extremely decent and modest man (he declined a knighthood)

Pranab Bardhan
I knew that Cambridge was by the river Cam, but the first day when I looked for it I could not find it. From the map I knew that on my way to the Economics Department, I had to cross it. I stopped and looked around but I could not see anything like a river. Then I asked a passerby, and he pointed to what I had thought was a small ditch or a canal. It was difficult to take it as a river, as in India I was used to much bigger rivers. Over time, however, I saw the
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