July 13, 2007
In Rural India, an Ambitious Academic Vision
A mining mogul with big ideas is determined to build an elite, American-style university for 100,000 students in Orissa. Farmers, who own the land he wants to develop, plan to resist.
A few miles outside the town of Puri, in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, lies Beladala, a farming village of thatch-roofed homes. One recent afternoon a group of farmers sat on the porch of the village's small school eating a lunch of rice, lentils, and vegetables on plates made of broad
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