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From time to time something happens which seems to illustrate and magnify a very disturbing and possibly catastrophic impact on society. Such an episode erupted in New York recently. Dr. Maitland Jones, Jr., a prestigious professor of organic chemistry at New York University, was fired by the University’s administration over the strong protests of his fellow professors in the Chemistry Department. Why was Dr. Jones fired? The answer is simply because he was “too hard” and students were not receiving the grades in his class to which they felt they were entitled. First, who is Dr. Jones? A three-time graduate...

MUMBAI: In 2008, when Atlanta-based Georgia Tech University bought 250 acres of land in Hyderabad it left many gaping. It did something even more astonishing shortly afterwards: it invited its own faculty members to quit their jobs and consider moving to India. A professor in the computer science department of the university told TOI: ‘‘Each one of us got a formal note. Even more amazingly, he added, all of us were offered the same salary that we were getting in Georgia. It was clearly an offer very few would even think of refusing; given the cost of living in India,...