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‘Dhawan introduced a new personality to IISc’:
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Roddam Narasimha
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By
(https://connect.iisc.ac.in/author/apcconnectadmin/)Nithyanand
Rao (https://connect.iisc.ac.in/author/nithyanand-rao/)

Satish Dhawan (left) and Roddam Narasimha (centre), with KR Narayanan (Photo courtesy: Roddam Narasimha)

Roddam Narasimha is the DST Year-of-Science Professor at the Engineering Mechanics Unit,
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore. Narasimha, a former
professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at IISc, was one of Satish Dhawan’s
earliest students. In this excerpt from a wide-ranging interview, he shares his memories of
Dhawan.

What was Satish Dhawan like as a teacher?