India, March 2 -- Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, delivering an address to a special convocation of the University of Allahabad, December 13, 1947, said: "A university stands for humanism, the tolerance, for reason, for progress, for the adventure of ideas and for the search for truth. It stands for the onward march of the human race towards even higher objectives. If the universities discharge their duty adequately, then it is well with the nation and the people. But if the temple of learning itself becomes a home of narrow bigotry and petty objectives, how then will the nation prosper or a people grow in stature?" This vision of a university is grossly missing today in our higher education institutions, run by people subservient to the establi...