Love for Fire

Surajit Mahalanobis

Brief Bio of Dr Surajit Mahalanobis •Eleven (11) years in research-based studies and writing w.e.f. 2012 •Over 20 years of newspaper editing and writing from 1997 to 2019, first at The Times of India, New Delhi up to 2005, and after retirement at India Press Agency, New Delhi from 2012 to 2019. Between 2006 to 2011, I wrote on Energy on freelance, and from 2008 to 2010 for the Vice Chancellor’s Office at IGNOU as the Senior Consultant (Media). •Total industry experience so far is over 38 years, w.e.f. 1982 to 2005 (from The Times of India), and from 20011 to 2020 (to India Press Agency). •Written for NTPC and Indian Energy sector from 2002 to 2005 for the dedicated The Times of India page Enterprise G, and then at India Press Agency as its Energy Editor up to 2019. •Earned Ph.D. Degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University on a thesis on Oil politics in the OPEC and its relations with Iran, in 2023; also, my MPhil form there in 2018. •Published five research papers in the domains of International Relations. •Published One research paper on Ethnic Language. •Worked as a Senior Consultant (Media) attached to the Hon’ble Vice Chancellor, Indira Gandhi National Open University, from 2008 to 2010 •I can teach trilingual (English, Hindi & Bangla), bilingual (English & Hindi or Hindi & Bangla) and monolingul (English or Hindi or Bangla). •Successfully qualified in the UGC NEP-PDP competence tests of Professional Development Programme on Implementation of NEP-2020 for University and College Teachers, 2022. Vision Dr Surajit Mahalanobis envisions his world to contribute in creation of capable makers of societies through teaching-learning processes. Tireless at research and writing from his desk, he engages himself in a task of never-ending achiever for higher goals. Professional Journalism Dr Surajit Mahalanobis is trained as an Editor on Desk in The Times of India for over 23 years till 2005 when he retired, at his 58, as per the company statute. In his capacity as an Editor, Dr Surajit Mahalanobis had started a page on the Government PSUs, as Enterprise G in 2004. Between 1997 to 2005, he has written over 5000 news stories for The Times of India daily newspaper, both in New Delhi and Patna. He broke many news in the areas of environment and water. Some of them are still in the Net being referred to by the world’s scholarship. He is repeatedly mentioned by international scholarship for his reports (TOI) and articles in Compendiums in the domains of Political Science, International Relations and Environment. Dr Surajit Mahalanobis also edited All India Radio bulletins for over seventeen years as a newsreader cum translator from English to Bangla on part time deputation from 1989 to 2007, with a break of three years, when he was sent to Patna Edition of the Times of India as a Copy Editor. Nearing superannuation, Dr Surajit Mahalanobis took from 2005 onward to exclusive teaching job as a Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Mass Communication at a GGS IP University colleges, at Jagannath International School for Communication and Design (JICD), Vasant Kunj. He taught there for about two years, with excellence, with all his students posting brilliant results and inducted into the industries with lucrative compensation packages. Dr Surajit Mahalanobis continued his journalistic forays part time into Energy as an Energy Editor of India Press Agency 2007 to 2019. Professional Academic Life in IGNOU It was from JICD (JIMS Group), Dr Surajit Mahalanobis was invited to take up responsibilities as the Senior Consultant (Media) attached to the Vice Chancellor of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) for a three years contract. Dr Surajit Mahalanobis’ responsibility was to invigorate IGNOU’s image to the educational world in India and abroad as a place of happening in excellence and delivery, through writing and popularising the university programmes, most being unique in the domain of learning. His mentor, the Vice Chancellor V N Raja Sekharan Pillai, had entrusted with Dr Surajit Mahalanobis the novel academic projects to ideate and deliver for students, which had built up IGNOU image to the international world of excellence, and influenced IGNOU to sign up with over 65 universities abroad for dual degrees and collaborative exchanges. He played catalyst to IGNOU enrolment go up to about 4.5 million during these years. Dr Surajit Mahalanobis in his capacity had also played catalyst to present IGNOU as a seat of excellence in professional studies. In this process Dr Surajit oversaw high fidelity visits of international politics like the Prime Minister of Australia, Dr Julia Gillard, and almost all ambassadors located in New Delhi, besides Indian leaders like Presidents of India, Smt. Pratibha Patil, Late Pranab Mukherjee, Late Shushma Swaraj, Dr Salman Khurshid and many others. From 2004 he entered into the domain of Research, attending and participating in as many as 125 seminars and l more…

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