Barriers to entry to elite educational institutions are tough to break. It is reported that 1500 years ago Nalanda University had 10,000 residential students from India, China, Japan, Korea, and other Asian countries with Buddhist connections.  It flourished for 700 years before invading armies destroyed the universities in Bihar in 1190s. The 9-storeyed University library with its manuscripts was burned to ashes in three days. During this period the best universities in the UK, Oxford (116...

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