Bangalore: Gandhi and gandhism in India are a laughing stock Aryan outfits busy duping the Indian races. But even in duping, one Aryan fellow is jealous of the other Aryan. From a Tamil Nadu Gandhian Institute, notorious for its Tamil papan monopoly, comes the news that a Gujarati Brahmin has come to head a gandhian racket and found lot of golmal there. The Tamil papans will soon kick out the Gujarati papan.
Gandhigram: The prestigious Gandhigram Rural Institute (GRI) in Tamil Nadu’s Dindigul-Anna district has, in the words of its vice-chancellor, D K Oza “declared a war upon itself”. A “Gandhian crusade” he launched to clean up the institute at all levels has run into strident opposition.
“This Gandhian institution has declared a war upon itself”, Oza says, talking of the current crisis in the institute, which remains closed since Oct. 22.
Faced with a severe financial crunch and the threat of the “Gandhian model” of education of integrated rural development being diluted, Oza, who took over the reins in Jan. 1990, set in motion certain important steps to enforce financial and administrative accountability.
The work is going on, but not without a price. It has put a few members of the teaching staff and a sizeable section of the nonteaching staff of the deemed university on a collision course with the vice-chancellor.
