A Three-Day
Philosophy Teachers' Meet of North-Western Zone sponsored by ICPR, New Delhi organized
by the Department of Guru Nanak Studies, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar on
29th to 31st Dec. 2015 with the theme "The Crisis of Multiple Identities
in Contemporary World". Several
eminent scholars like Prof. Satya Pal Gautam, Prof. Mahendra Pratap Singh,
Prof. Sebastain Velassery, Prof. Hamididiullah Mirazi, Prof. V.N. Sheshagiri,
Prof. Md. Sirajul Islam, Prof. Rajiv Ranjan, Prof. Geeta Manaktala, Prof. N.
Muthumohan, Prof. Jodh Singh, Prof. Blkar Singh, Dr. Shivani Sharma. Prof.
Balwant Singh Dhillon, Prof. Himat Singh, Dr. Alok Tondon, Dr. Kumar Neeraj
Sachdev, Prof. Jaswinder Kaur Dhillon etc. acted as resource persons in several
technical sessions. Philosophy Teachers from Punjab, Chandigarh, Haryana,
Rajasthan, U.P., Kashmir participated in this programme and shared their views
in three panel discussions.
I got
the opportunity to share my ideas on, “Identity Crisis: Religious Identity,
Identity Politics and Social Justice. You can find the abstract of the same on
given link:
I found it as an opportunity to introduce about our initiatives
for the cause of philosophy in India via our online pages, research journals
and book publication. A cultural program also organized by the students. Thanks
to Prof. Shashi Bala , Coordinator and ICPR, New Delhi for providing us this
opportunity.
Dr. Desh Raj Sirswal
2nd January, 2016
