PU Professor Awarded UGC Emeritus

Chandigarh, April 26, 2017: Sebastian Velassery, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Panjab University, Chandigarh has been awarded UGC national professorship. Prof.Velassery did his M.A.from Hyderabad Central University and Ph. D from IIT/Kanpur. He has published Nine books and contributed 78 research articles in various national/international journals and anthologies. The recent books are ‘Globalization and Cultural Identities: Philosophical Challenges and Opportunities’,(2012) Identity, Creativity
and Modernization: Perspectives on Indian Cultural Tradition, Published by Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, Washington D.C. (2013) and Reasoning in Faith: Cultural Foundations for Civil Society and Globalization, Washington D. C.(2014) His latest work jointly written with Dr. Reena Patra “Casteism and the Ideology of Exclusion: A Post-Script on the Humanization of Indian Societies” is released in April, 2016.