Chennai, March 11 (BPNS)

Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi has said that those advocating federalism must understand that India was not a ‘contractual union’ and instead  an organic one, unlike the United States.

Ravi was speaking at the South Zone Vice-Chancellors meet on Friday.

The Governor said that looking at the country through the colonial prism had not helped eradicate poverty but had promoted religious imbalances.

He said that India that was Bharat was like body parts, each different in shape and functioning but which couldn’t function outside the body. He also said that universities as places for knowledge dissemination must ensure that they help in the dissemination of such knowledge that was useful for society.

The Governor who is the Chancellor of the Universities also said that he had a chance to learn about 30,000 doctoral theses and said that some were extremely good with a lot of information but many were on a ‘leader or his ideology’. He said that this showed that the researcher had pursued a Ph.D. for the sake of a degree.

The Governor said that while it could be politically correct to do such research, the universities must not lose sight of national or societal interests.