the last century, Latin and Greek had remained compulsory for the humanities in many Western universities.

With India’s triumphant intervention in the 1971 Bangladesh war with solid backing from the Soviet Union, Indira Gandhi’s political alliance with the Indian Left led to the appointment of Nurul Hasan as education minister. Key positions were systematically filled with ideologically committed Marxists, who perceived millennial Hindu culture as the fossilized “feudal” relic of a hierarchical (caste-) society.

Anglophone elite

What began as studied indifference had by now become a veritable hatred to a “reactionary” past. Gupt, who started teaching English at Delhi University—also from 1971—and has retired after 40 years, recounted his own academic ordeal as a victim of the paradoxical prejudice of this newly minted Anglophone elite. Despite grounding in Greek and ampleJakob Chychrun and Olli Juolevi, two of the top defense prospects for the 2016 NHL Draft were among the 40 players from the Canadian Hockey League picked Thursday to play in the BMO CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game, to be played at Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver on Jan. 28 (9 p.m. ET; NHLN, SN, TVA Sports).

The game will include 20 prospects from the Ontario Hockey League, 12 from the Western Hockey League, and eight from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. The players competing in the game were chosen by the 30 NHL teams; the rosters were set by NHL Central Scouting.

2016 CHL/NHL TOP PROSPECTS ROSTERS TEAM CHERRY GOALTENDERS: Evan Fitzpatrick, Sherbrooke (QMJHL); Zach Sawchenko, Moose Jaw (WHL) DEFENSEMEN: Jakob Chychrun, Sarnia (OHL); Kale Clague, Brandon (WHL); Sean Day,