Barely a week after T V Mohandas Pai announced his resignation from Infosys and talked about working in education, he got his first public job offer. Bangalore University vice-chancellor N Prabhu Dev on Thursday wrote to Pai, a BU alumnus, inviting him to co-chair the Bengaluru School of Economics, being planned on the lines of Delhi School of Economics.

"Yes, it must have been a painful decision for you to come out of Infosys after a highly distinguished service. Mr Narayana Murthy has described you as a key anchor builder of Infosys. Now you have a bigger horizon, a bigger canvas to articulate your nation-building programme. I've read you have decided to spend 30-35% of your time in the corporate world and 30-35% of your time in education," starts the letter. BSE will be a research centre dedicated to economics in policy advice, publications and dissemination activities. He said they will "place themselves under appropriate scrutiny", the letter said.