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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
This book contains a collection of essays written by the author, drawing upon his experience as a Development sector researcher. These articles centre around development issues such as social research, poverty, disability, community care, and development, even while proposing a critical and qualitative understanding of these issues. Aimed at both the development professionals and academics, this book aspires to offer fresh perspectives to the issues concerning social and development research/er.
R KUMARAN
R. Kumaran is currently Director, Centre for Studies in Sociology, at the Department of Gandhian Thought and Peace Science, Gandhigram Rural Institute - Deemed to be University. He has a combined 20 years of teaching and research experience, having taught at Post-Graduate level during most of his career. He has acquired his PG degree in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, while his M.Phil. in Sociology is from Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University. His Ph.D. work is on Gandhian Approach to Development and Poverty, obtained from Gandhigram Rural University. His research interests are centered around formulating Gandhian Research Methodology for Social Sciences, positing native sociology tempered with indigenous social philosophers and thinkers such as M.K Gandhi and Ambedkar, and popularizing Public Sociology that brings the last human to the front stage, in true Gandhian Spirt. His publications too reflect his thrust areas of research with three of his five books and many of his research articles focussing on bringing marginalized people’s experiences to the center-stage of social science epistemology.
