“The world is looking at India as a nursery of new possibilities. Many countries are approaching us to open IIT campuses there. Two IIT campuses — one in Tanzania and one in Abu Dhabi — are already about to start operations…. Various global universities are also reaching out to us, expressing their interest in setting up campuses in India.” Prime minister Narendra Modi at the Akhil Bhartiya Shiksha Samagam in Delhi (July 29) “The National Education Policy is making its way to every part of the country. The NEP aims to make India the torchbearer of providing and receiving quality education in the world in the 21st century.”Dharmendra Pradhan, Union education minister, on the third anniversary of NEP 2020 (Hindustan Times, July 31) “The fall seems the steepest for Byju’s. It lost its ‘decacorn’ status after Prosus, one of its biggest investors, slashed the edtech firm’s valuation by three-fourths — from $22 billion to $5.1 billion – in less than one year.” Aroon Purie, editor-in-chief, on the great plunge in valuations of unicorns especially Byju’s (India Today, July 31) “We are dealing with something on unprecedented magnitude of violence against women in communal and sectarian violence. It cannot be gainsaid that crimes are happening against women and in Bengal also. But here the case is different. Tell me what is the suggestion from you in Manipur. We cannot justify what happened in Manipur by saying that this happened elsewhere.” D.Y. Chandrachud, Chief Justice of India, on violence in Manipur (Times of India, August 1) “…But capital is mobile and inherently risk-averse and could swiftly move elsewhere if it perceives a heightened law-and-order threat. This is the practical lesson that politicians of all ideological hues need to absorb rapidly.” Editorial on recent communal violence in Gurguram (Business Standard, August 4)
