In the heart of ancient Bihar, where red-brick ruins now sleep under the sun, there once stood a city of ideas, Nalanda. Long before Oxford's spires pierced English skies or Harvard was even a thought, India had already built the world's first residential university, where 10,000 students and 2,000 teachers debated everything from astronomy to grammar under the shade of Bodhi trees.

This was not just a Buddhist monastery. It was a multidisciplinary university, a cradle of global learning, and a symbol of India's golden intellectual past.

A WORLD AHEAD OF ITS TIME

Founded in the 5th century CE by Kumaragupta I of the Gupta dynasty, Nalanda thrived under royal patronage for nearly 700 years. It attracted scholars from across Asia China, Tibet, Korea, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka making it the

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