Ravindra Kumar

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Indian political scientist

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India

Author Journalist

Work field

Journalism Literature

Gender

Male

Star sign

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Birth

1 January 1959 People who share this birthday

Place of birth

Meerut, India

Age

65 years

Awards

Padma Shri in literature & education

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Biography

Ravindra Kumar (born 1959) is a Political Scientist, Peace Educator, an Indologist, a Humanist, Cultural Anthropologist, Gandhian Thinker, and a Former Vice-Chancellor of CCS University, Meerut (India). Currently he is an Ombudsman of Swami Vivekananda Subharati University, Meerut and the editor-in-chief ofGlobal Peace International Journal. He has written more than one hundred books and four hundred articles on greatest personalities of the Indian sub-continent, especially Gautama Buddha, Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and on various social, political, educational, cultural and academic issues to his credit.

Early life and education

Born in 1959 at Kakrauli village of Muzaffarnagar district in Uttar Pradesh, India, he is M. A. in Political Science & Philosophy, PGD in Gandhian Studies, Ph. D. and D. Lit.

Career

A well-known Indologist and the former Vice-Chancellor of CCS University Meerut, India, Kumar has been associated with several national and international academic, cultural, educational, peace and social bodies/institutions/organizations. As an International Professor and a Cultural Ambassador of India, he has delivered more than four hundred lectures at various institutions and universities of the world on subjects related to Asian values, civilization, culture, Gandhian philosophy, Indology, international co-operation and understanding, leadership,way of life, women's empowerment, world peace, youth affairs etc.

As a Peace Worker, Kumar started Peace Review – an international journal of peace studies in 1998 and worked as its Editor-in-Chief. In 2001 he has started Global Peace –another international journal of philosophy, peace, education, culture and civilization. Besides, he has inspired hundred and thousands of people all over the world for their commitment towards non-violence by signing pledges.

Between 1993 and 2015 Ravindra Kumar has organised a number of seminars, symposiums and workshops at national and international level on subjects related to value education, religion and politics, non-violence and democracy, morality and ethics in public life, human values and rights, education, peace and development,Gandhian philosophy.

Books

Dr. Ravindra Kumar Receiving Padma Shri from The President Dr. K R Narayanan in 2001

Religion and Word Peace (1993-2006), Morality and Ethics in Public Life (1999), Towards Peace, two-parts (2001-7), Theory and Practice of Gandhian Non-Violence (2002-7), Non-Violence and Its Philosophy (2003), Five Thousand Years of Indian Culture (2003), Fundamentals of Civilization (2006), Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel: Life, Works and Views (2005-12), Towards Buddha (2007), Gandhian Thought: New World, New Dimensions (2008), India and Mahatma Gandhi (2009-10), Peace Philosophy in Action (2010), Resolving Conflicts: The Gandhian Way (2011), Education, Peace and Development (2012), Gandhi in Current Perspective (2012), The Indian Way (2013), The Gandhian Way: A Universal Method of Resolving Conflicts (2013), Non-Violence and Peace Education, two-parts (2013), Facets of Education in Global Perspective (2013-5), Unveiling the Universality of Indology and Indian Philosophy (2015), Value and Peace Education (2016), Essays on Socio-Cultural Sensitization, Empowerment and Human Rights (2016), Sanatana Dharma –The Vedic-Hindu Jeevan Marg (2016), Gandhi Marg (2016), Gandhi’s Vision of the World in the Light of Indian Philosophy (2018) and Greatest Indians –a multi-volume series (2016-8).

Positions

Teacher, Department of Political Science, SD College, Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh (1982-3),Research Representative/Senior Research Officer, Sardar Patel National Memorial, Ahmedabad/Sardar Patel Works Committee, New Delhi (1985-90),Member Secretary and Chief Editor of Vithalbhai Patel Works Committee (1990-92), Vice Chancellor, CCS University, Meerut, India (1994), Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Prince of Songkla University, Pattani Campus, Thailand (1996-2001), Visiting Professor/Scholar at more than one hundred Universities/Institutions of higher studies and research around the world including Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines), Universities of Thammasat, Silpakorn, Mahidol, Kasetsart and Chulalongkorn (Thailand), Universities of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur and Malaysia Science, Penang (Malaysia), Universities of Mandalay and Yangon (Myanmar), Udayana University, Bali (Indonesia), Institute Kern, Leiden University (The Netherlands), Universities of Aalborg, Aarhus, NIAS Copenhagen and Odense (Denmark), St. Petersburg State University (Russia), Jaume-I University, Castellon (Spain), University of Torino (Italy), University of Vienna (Austria), North Florida University, Jacksonville, Florida (USA), Universities of Autonomic Latin-American, Antioquia, EAFIT, Pontificia Bolivariana and Externado de Colombia (Columbia), Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo –the UEES, Guayaquil (Ecuador, South America), University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban (South Africa)(1995-2019), Ombudsman, Swami Vivekananda Subharati University, Meerut, India (since 2013), Patron/Chairman, Director and Coordinator for international relations of many universities and institutions of higher studies and research in India and other countries of Asia.

Memberships

Receiving Sardar Patel National Award in 2006 from Lt. General S.K. Sinha, Governor of J&K

Member, Executive Council, Meerut University, Meerut, India, between 1993 and 1994
Member, Executive Council, MD University, Rohtak, India, between 1994 and 1996
Vice-Chancellor, CCS University, India, 1994

With Former Prime Minister of India Morarji Desai in 1984

Member, Senate, Gandhigram Rural Institute Deemed University, Tamil Nadu, India, between 1994 and 1997
Life Fellow, (United Writers’ Association), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India since 1997
Consultant to UNUP, CR., CA. for Gandhian Studies 2000
Founder and Secretary General, World Peace Movement Trust since 2001
Member, Gandhi-Information-Zentrum, Berlin, Germany since 2001
Life Member, International Film & Television Research Centre, Noida, India since 2006
Honorary Advisor, Peace Education Academy of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal since 2006
Member, Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children, London, UK since 2006
Honorary Advisor, Institute For Inspiration & Self Development, Kolkata, India since 2006
Member, Advisory Board, Media For Freedom, USA since 2007
Member, Indian Language Newspapers Association (ILNA), India since 2009
Member, Asia-Pacific Peace Research Association, since 2009
Member, Action Asia, since 2009
Patron, Stallion College for Engineering and Technology, Chhutmalpur, Saharanpur, India since 2010
Member, Gandhi Serve Foundation, Germany since 2010
Member, National Executive, Indian Language Newspapers Association (ILNA), India, between2010 and 2012
Patron, Ruminations –a bi-annual international journal for analysis and research in humanities and social sciences ISSN 2229-6751, India since 2010
Member, Executive Council, Uttarakhand Sanskrit University, Haridwar (Uttarakhand), India, between 2011 and 2013
Patron, The EDUQUEST –a bi-annually international-refereed journal in Education ISSN 2277-3614, JKC, Purulia, West Bengal, India since 2012
Member, Advisory Board to Techno LEARN –a bi-annually international journal of educational technology ISSN 2231-4105, New Delhi, India since 2012
Patron, LM Institute of Technology and Management, Lucknow, India since 2012
Member Academic Council and the Coordinator for international affairs, Shridhar University (Rajasthan), India, between 2012 and 2017
Founder Director, Institute of Indology and Oriental Studies,Shridhar University (Rajasthan), India since 2012
Coordinator for international relations for the universities and institutions of higher studies and research under the Baise-Chumphon and Krabi Sister’s Cities Projects, between 2012 and 2017
The Ombudsman, Swami Vivekananda Subharati University, Meerut (UP), India and 17 other institutions along, since 2013
Chairman of the Committee for Classification of Affiliated Colleges with the Uttrakhand Sanskrit University, Haridwar, 2013
Patron, International Centre of Nonviolence (ICON), Sydney, Australia since 2013
Patron, The Ashram Gandhi Puri, Bali, Indonesia since 2014
Patron, Adi Shankara Vedanta Pratishthanam, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India since 2015
Advisor/Council Head and Convener, Gandhi Peace Foundation, Kathmandu, Nepal since 2018
Member Advisory Board of Acid Survivors & Women Welfare Foundation –ASWWF, India since 2019