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THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MAGAZINE

Volume X XIII No.11

BOARD OF ADVISORS
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla T
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, he very first issue of EducationWorld — The Human Development
Krishan Khanna, Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, Magazine was hesitantly launched in a small 600 sq. ft low-ceiling
Kirit Mehta, Balkishan Sharma (Mumbai); Dr.
Ramdas Pai (Manipal); Prof. Geeta Kingdon office in Bangalore (now Bengaluru) on November 6, 23 years ago.
(Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. Parth Shah, Jeroninio The inaugural issue was blessed and formally released by the late Prof. N.S.
Almeida, Premchand Palety (Delhi); Dr. Kannan
Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra Subba (Kurseong); Ramaswamy (1926-2012), a visionary and insufficiently honoured education
Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. Achyuta Samanta institutions builder — founding-director of NITIE, Bombay, Jamnalal Bajaj In-
(Bhubaneswar); Shyama akore (London)
stitute of Management Studies (JBIMS) and Indian Institute of Management-
EDITOR Bangalore. Perhaps that’s why this publication despite — or perhaps because
Dilip akore of — its ambitious mission statement (“to build the pressure of public opinion
MANAGING EDITOR to make education the #1 item on the national agenda”, was greeted with indif-
Summiya Yasmeen ference, and often hostility.
CHIEF SUB EDITOR With the country’s risk-averse banking system, nationalised to enable busi-
Sundar Anand ness and industry, comprehensively uncooperative, we owe our institutional
Paromita Sengupta, Reshma Ravishanker, Gopi survival to the faith reposed in this ambitious venture by our magnanimous
Chand N, (Bangalore), Autar Nehru (Delhi) investors — the Manipal Education & Medical Group (Dr. Ramdas Pai);
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