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By botching up the selection of Institutions of Eminence, the government has reduced the entire exercise to a joke

If one wants one instance of how a good and perhaps well-intentioned idea can be converted into a pointless exercise, we don’t have to look far. The committee set up to select Institutions of Eminence is a prime example of a “how not to do it”.

Of course, even a child knows that institutions of world repute are not created through either a government diktat or any policy geared towards it (which policy or declaration created Harvard, Cambridge or MIT?). The intention behind this exercise was to pick a few people the government could trust to not misuse the freedom it