An Institution That Refuses to Stand Still
New Delhi [India], July 7: While many institutions seek to accommodate every possible aspiration, DES Pune University has chosen a different path. There is a particular kind of university that fills brochures with the word “excellence” and leaves it at that. DES Pune University (DES PU) is not that institution. Walk through its academic philosophy, and you find something less polished but more honest: a university unafraid to wrestle with the fundamental question of what education is for and arriving at answers that feel contemporary rather than inherited.
Founded on a legacy of quality learning and nation-building, the university has spent recent years reorienting itself around a single question. Not “what do we teach?” but “what does a student actua...