Face to Face COVER STORY
Grooming THE
Citizen
BY VINITA BELANI ILLUSTRATION ANOOP PC
Technical experts of the future will be a bit more than what they are today—the experts will be global, liberal, scientific minds, willing to co-ordinate across borders to solve the common societalsize problems: Or so believes one of the brightest minds of today, Shankar S. Sastry
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hat do these Indian names—Shankar, Subra, Pradeep, Venky and Vijay— have in common? These desi men have made it big in videsh—all are deans in of some of the most prestigious US schools Bear with us as we elaborate—Subra Suresh is an IIT Madras graduate (class of 1977). Suresh, the Dean of School of Engineering, MIT, has been tapped by Barack Obama to head the National Science Foundation. Pradeep Khosla is an IIT Kharagpur graduate from the batch of 1990. He is the Dean of the School of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Venkatesh Naraynamurthy (a student of University
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