The Critical Endeavour

DEDICATION


In Memory of my revered teachers:


Professor M.Q. Khan
Dr. Sadananda Mishra
Prof. Hare Krushna Patnaik
Whose invisible presence inspires me.

- Bijay Kumar Das

Contents


Preface

Acknowledgements

Bijay Kumar Das

Introduction: Teaher as Guru/ Facilitator of Learning.

Harish Trivedi

Meeting Myself: The Story of My Experiments with Teaching

Jasbir Jain

Speaking of Oneself: Intuition, Imagination and Experience

C.T. Indra

My Vocation: "Ever Renewing Oneself: Fitting in is the Test of its Value"

Mohan Ramanan

My Life as a Teacher

Shyamala A. Narayan

The Story of My Becoming and Being a Teacher

Ramesh K. Srivastava

My Hurdle Race as an Academic

Amitava Roy

My Academic and Other Lives

B. Parvathi

My Academic Autobiography

P. Balaswamy

The Evolution of an Accidental Teacher

Prashant K. Sinha

The Peaks and Troughs of a Teacher's Life

Bijay Kumar Das

Epilogue: Thoughts on the Teachers' Day

Index

Contributors



Published By

AUTHORS P R E S S, NEW DELHI, 2019