PatnaDaily Sometime in the year 2000 or 2001, the Patna High Court had directed me to enquire in the matter of the award of a fraudulent MA degree by the Magadha University – with a first class to boot - to an influential person. In a report to the Hon’ble High Court - which is the basis of this short piece - outlining the dimension of the problem and the challenges in calling the perpetrators to account, I had observed "what W H Auden had said about literature - “News that stays news”, can be said of the state of Higher education in Bihar”.