Dear Chandan General as well as specialist education, whether acquired at home or abroad, is meaningless and a waste unless it is utilised. I studied law and political science. But my knowledge was not utilised ever in those directions. A man’s career at times ends not in the way it is planned. A doctor becomes a full-fledged writer(e.g Somerset Maugham.) While I was employed, I was required to meet the Personnel Officer once every year. While talking shop, he told me that he had a Bachelor of Civil Laws degree from Oxford. That is not the kind of qualification a Personnel Officer is required to possess. He was, I believe, on the wrong side of forty, to start pupillage in Chambers. But then you never know. There is late flowering here and there; hope, as an amateur.gardener .you would agree. In case of medicine the benefit is obvious. We do not have good hospitals in Assam.. Our ministers or senior civil servants go to Mumbai, New Delhi or Chenai for treatment. Good hospitals do not just mean the buildings, it means the specialists, in the main. We are behind in so many things that it is not worth counting them. How can a University in India compare with Harvard, or Cambridge? That answers the second of your questions. Prof Amartya Sen or Lord Bhattacharyya did not shine in Indian Universities. I believe, there is indirect benefit in most cases.I give an example. It was said that late Dr Venkata Rao, Professor of Political Science, Gauhati University, used to give more marks to his female students. I asked him whether it was true. He said it was true as he wanted to encourage higher education for women and for the sake of the future children. Regards bhuban
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