Shashi Tharoor, MP, called for rebuilding the higher educational system in Kerala so as to equip the youth for the technology driven knowledge economy and society. The creation of “well-formed” rather than “well-filled” minds is the challenge of the higher educational ecosystem of Kerala today. He was addressing a gathering of young people in the Maramon Convention, organized by the Mar Thoma Evangelistic Association of the Marthoma Church. He said when the first University was set up, Kerala’s-Travancore MahaRaja (King of Travancore) invited Albert Einstein to be the first Vice Chancellor of the university, which he refused.