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Lessons to learn

October 10, 2015, Hyderabad. During my last visit to Bihar, I was visiting one of our rural project locations in Rajgir district, located around 70 KMs away from the capital city of Bihar. This time I have decided to visit one of the ancient and internationally acclaimed universities, Nalanda University. While I was approaching close to the university premise, I was just thinking and trying to visualise the kind of layout and infra of the university. I thought it would be something like some ancient building blocks and some ancient pictures of the great scholars, also was thinking about the history written on some blocks depicting the story of the university. To my surprise, I could find some stones, destroyed old building blocks and it appeared me that, nothing to feel so excited. Since I have come all the way, I just wanted to have a glance. There was a guide who came forward to share the story of the University. For a moment I felt that, what’s there to learn, instead ...