India has been hailed as the supreme citadel of knowledge and wisdom throughout the ages. This ancient land of sages and savants has more than 5000 years of rich and evolved culture, and a tradition of institutionalized education through its famed Gurukul system. Our Nalanda and Taxila universities around the beginning of 1st millennia were probably the World’s very first residential schools where students and international scholars converged to learn and get enlightened in various disciplines. India has been fortunate in being the nurturing ground of some preeminent educators of the stature of Swami Vivekananda; Sri Aurobindo; Rabindranath Tagore; Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan; Jiddu Krishnamurthy and others. The multi-racial and multi-cultural composition of our polity has always encouraged liberal thinking and a pragmatic outlook towards intellectual development. Empowerment through education has been inherent in all our systems of governance and we have always tried to learn and assimilate the progressive features of other civilizations and societies from across the world. Nobel Laureate, Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore had brought out this aspect beautifully in one of his famous poetic compositions from Gitanjali - Mind without Fear .

India has always been a repository of knowledge and the pedantic disposition of our intelligentsia has, for long, been our prized legacy. As a proud Indian citizen it has been my sincere endeavour to engage this brilliant mind force into imparting meaningful education that transcends all borders of geographic divides and narrow prejudices.