‘A period of great disruption ahead but big opportunity for country like India’

LSE's president and vice-chancellor, Larry Kramer, emphasises India's need for strong universities and partnerships, advocating for interdisciplinary education

You head one of the best social science universities in the world. Most of the good universities are still in the West, which is now in a state of demographic decline. The demographically dynamic countries, India included, have a lot of students but do not have many good universities. What do you think we can do about this asymmetry?

Larry Kramer, vice chancellor of London School of Economics during an interview with Hindustan Times in New Delhi. (Sanchit Khanna/HT photo)

I suppose two things. One is you can send more of your students to LSE. We have a long-standing relationship with