Sarvajeet D Chandra

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Before Oxford. Before Cambridge. Nalanda had 10,000 students, 1,000 teachers, and 9 million manuscripts. Harvard says it invented the case method in 1924. He destroyed it. They named a town after him. Nalanda made his entire Chinese education feel like kindergarten. 1193 CE. Nalanda has been burning for six days. The Ancient Religion That Went Viral. And The One God It Left Behind Creator of the Universe. Author of existence. Zero active worshippers. What happens when a god becomes irrelevant? 500 CE. A Gupta Emperor whispers to his sculptor: “Make Vishnu magnificent. Brahma? Put Brahma somewhere.” And just like that, the Lord of Creation was sidelined for 1,500 years. Gods, it turns out, need patrons too.