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Professor Mahesh Rangarajan is a highly respected academician of India. His forte is environmental and contemporary history. He has substantial administrative experience from his days as the head of Nehru Memorial Museums and Library.
He is a creative mind, offering solutions to many problems.. He is not a problem creator or a rabble-rouser who misguides his students to become andolanjeevis and create dissent on every mudda in the country. There are many in the academic world who teach less and preach more. He is not the least like them.
Rangarajan is also known to be a loveable and approachable prof. His students love him. Krea students have a good leader as their VC. Best of luck to Krea
A liberal and democrat like Pratap Bhanu Mehta cannot be tolerated by a private university, that rings the warning bell about the already expired date of bourgeois democracy. The apologists stil cling on to edges of its coffin are only mourning either silently or vociferously. Pratap, a sharp critical mind, must have known this better than anyone else in the academia of India today.
Professor Mahesh Rangarajan is a highly respected academician of India. His forte is environmental and contemporary history. He has substantial administrative experience from his days as the head of Nehru Memorial Museums and Library.
He is a creative mind, offering solutions to many problems.. He is not a problem creator or a rabble-rouser who misguides his students to become andolanjeevis and create dissent on every mudda in the country. There are many in the academic world who teach less and preach more. He is not the least like them.
Rangarajan is also known to be a loveable and approachable prof. His students love him. Krea students have a good leader as their VC. Best of luck to Krea
A liberal and democrat like Pratap Bhanu Mehta cannot be tolerated by a private university, that rings the warning bell about the already expired date of bourgeois democracy. The apologists stil cling on to edges of its coffin are only mourning either silently or vociferously. Pratap, a sharp critical mind, must have known this better than anyone else in the academia of India today.
He is not a democrat. This is not the US.
You caught him…… Ha. Ha.
Very true! This is mindless ‘cut & paste’ of American phares in the Indian context. Remember ‘post truth’?