Infectious mindlessness

The infection that produces mindlessness is spreading in India

When I was admitted to MS University in Vadodara exactly 30 years ago, I knew it was not a place to receive world class education. The machinery in the department of textiles did not really work. The single jacquard unit had last been used in weaving a (admittedly very fine) likeness of Jawaharlal Nehru when he had visited the place another three decades before my time. 

The looms and the ginning and spinning units were as installation art. They were never turned on, and quite possibly were not even electrified. We were shown how to use them in a sort of