The National Education Policy 2020 has heralded a new imagination for the Indian higher education system. It has created an inspiring vision that has the potential to build and nurture world-class universities and higher education institutions (HEIs) in India. However, this vision depends on our ability and commitment to the pursuit of systemic, systematic, synchronous and sustainable reforms as envisaged in the policy. An equally important aspect of the higher education vision can and should be is what the Honourable Prime Minister of India has envisaged – the evolution of what he has called, “Atmanirbhar Bharat”.