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“Challenges of Nation Building in India” by Prof. Anand Kumar
Event Date: 11/11/2021
Description:
Professor Anand Kumar is MA in Sociology from Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi). He holds an MPhil from Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi) and a PhD from the University of Chicago. He specialises in Political Sociology, Social Thought, Globalisation and Media & Communication. He has over three decades of teaching experience at JNU, BHU, Albert Ludwig University (Freiburg, Germany) and Tufts University (Boston). His long list of awards and honours include Rotating Chair Professor, ICCR (New Delhi), Ford Foundation Short Term Grant, UGC Fellowship for Research Visit to France, DAAD Fellowship for Teaching, Member (National Committee for Dr B.R. Ambedkar Centenary), and First Prize at Inter-Cultural Learning Programme (BMW Foundation, Munich).
Details:
Professor Kumar interrogated the dynamics of nation-building in India, which began with ‘unity in diversity’ as its explicit goal. This talk was mandatory for 3rd-semester students and was open for all.
It was an honour and a pleasure to invite all to JKLU to a session organised by the Centre for Communication and Critical Thinking titled “Challenges of Nation Building in India”.
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