Moulding young minds
Rupamanjari Ghosh, Vice Chancellor, Shiv Nadar University, feels that students should be allowed to follow their passion.
Not every brilliant scientist can be an excellent institution builder but Rupamanjari Ghosh, 59, has had lots of practice. Vice Chancellor of Shiv Nadar University (SNU) at Greater Noida, the physicist who specialises in quantum mechanics/quantum optics also help build the School of Physical Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi. "We did a lot of dreaming there," she says of the institution where she was between 1988 and 2012. "We believed in excellence without compromise," she recalls. "JNU gave us a lot of space for arguments and dissent.
