Delhi School of Economics

I'd already quit my masters.

I went to study at Delhi School of Economics, which is like the most premium college for economics in India.

It's like our finance ministers and prime ministers and Nobel Prize winners come from there.

So it's really difficult to get in.

And then did my MBA.

So did you go

back to Delhi School of Economics? No, I went to

another college to do my MBA.

And, you know, the problem was when I was teaching at Harvard, the vice chancellor of Delhi University wrote to me saying that we have decided to invite you to be a full professor, not just any professor, professor of mathematical economics.

And you will be in Delhi University and stationed in the Delhi School of Economics.

So I packed up everything and I landed in Delhi.

And when I landed in Delhi, Mrs. Gandhi had split the Congress, and the leftists had become everything, you see.

Dr. Swami, have you had the opportunity to meet the second satsang salak of RSS Guruji Golwalkar during your initial days when you entered politics or just before that Guru Golwalkar? Did you have an opportunity to meet him who laid the real foundation of the RSS as it is today?

Yeah, well, see, it's like this, that I had come back to America to India.

And then Mrs. Gandhi, Amartya Sen, all these people ensure that I don't get Delhi School of Economics.

So I was, you know, then I managed to become a

Earlier it was in jobs only.

So, Satish Deshpande, who is a sociologist earlier with Delhi School of Economics and Yogendra Yadav had come up with this deprivation points method, which factored in different kinds of deprivation, like regional deprivation.

Now, suppose someone... studying in Delhi has a head start so someone studying in a remote village in say Chhattisgarh or Jharkhand so some points can be given to it irrespective of caste so they are trying to account for the complexity of but the question is that caste would still remain the dominant lubricant of inequalities

you know what the point that Anand said is that the meritocracy doesn't take into account the access you have to schools there was this fantastic it wasn't a speech it was just a bite but she was speaking with such confidence and clarity this girl from the dalit community said that you talk about merit come and study in the school i went to and then compete with me and i'll show you merit or let me get access to the school you went to and then compete with me then i'll show you merit i think it really put in perspective that Where you have studied, come from, etc.