By Anuj Bhalla,CHANDIGARH- March 26, 2012: Prof Gopal Guru, Jawaharlal Nehru University, deliveredthe seventh Pradeep Kumar Memorial Lecture, today at the Evening Studies Auditorium at P.U. Campus here today. This annual endowment lecture is organized by the Departmentof Political Science, Panjab University in memory of Prof. Pradeep Kumar, who was both as student and teacher for many years at the Department.
It was attended by students, research scholars, teachers, former colleagues and friends from the university as well as the city. The family members of Professor Kumar were also present on the occasion. Presiding over the lecture, Prof. B.S. Brar, Dean University Instructions, also reminisced about Prof Kumar as a friend and colleague. Dr Deepak K Singh, Chairperson also spoke at the event.
Prof Guru in his lecture spoke about the five paradoxes of the Indian republic, bring out the gap between the promises in the Constitution of India and existing reality. The people, according to him who were to be central to the whole democratic exercise had become marginalized. He argued that they had been connived into accepting positions, which did not necessarily benefit them, Dr Deepak K Singh, Chairperson of Political Science Department informed.