6575 Professor Kamla Chowdhry with Dilnavaz Sidhwa (left) and Harsha Rawal (right), the only two women who graduated with the first batch of the PGP (1964-66). Credit: IIMA Archives
Aditi Tandon
New Delhi, December 18
That the premier Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) had three founding fathers nuclear scientist Vikram Sarabhai, industrial Kasturbhai Lalbhai and former Gujarat chief minister Jivraj Mehta is well-documented.
What was not known until today is that the institute also had a founding mother, who, new research now shows, could not become the Director due to “sexism.”
Kamla Chowdhry was IIMA’s first faculty member and a coordinator of programmes at the school between 1962 and 1965.
6575 Professor Kamla Chowdhry with Dilnavaz Sidhwa (left) and Harsha Rawal (right), the only two women who graduated with the first batch of the PGP (1964-66). Credit: IIMA Archives
Aditi Tandon
New Delhi, December 18
That the premier Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) had three founding fathers nuclear scientist Vikram Sarabhai, industrial Kasturbhai Lalbhai and former Gujarat chief minister Jivraj Mehta is well-documented.
What was not known until today is that the institute also had a founding mother, who, new research now shows, could not become the Director due to “sexism.”
Kamla Chowdhry was IIMA’s first faculty member and a coordinator of programmes at the school between 1962 and 1965.
Venkaiah Naidu to deliver today Kamath Endowment Lecture
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M. Venkaiah Naidu
Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu will deliver the sixth M.V. Kamath Endowment Lecture from 10.30 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Friday, albeit in the virtual mode. The event will take place at the TMA Pai Hall on the third floor, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal.
Pro-Chancellor of MAHE H.S. Ballal, Vice-Chancellor M.D. Venkatesh and other dignitaries from the university will participate. The event will happen through CISCO and will be live telecast by Rajya Sabha TV and Facebook live page of Manipal Institute of Communication.