Social Change carried a symposium on Research Culture in the Indian Universities in its June 2015 issue with a lead comment by Professor Pravin J. Patel and responses by educationists from different parts of the world. In this issue, we carry the discussion on this crucial subject further with a response to the discussants by Professor Patel and a new comment on the same subject by Professor Vinay K. Srivastava.
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