Let the diamond decide who makes the cut

Only six of the 113 institutions that applied for Institutions of Eminence status have made the cut. And the credentials of some of those will definitely raise eyebrows

Agatha Christie’s riveting And Then There Were None came to my mind the other day. Okay, I exaggerate. Not none but just six.

Wonders in this country will never cease. A committee to unearth 20 Institutions of Eminence (IOE) in a country of one billion people and almost as many educational institutions has come up with six names. To be honest, I haven’t followed this story very closely. I am not exactly sure of what the government wanted to achieve with this. But after the list appeared, I did try to make some sense of what was going on.

As I understood