Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 27: In memory of Prof D K Rampal, one-day national seminar on ‘Revisiting the Subaltern: Shifting Paradigms’, was organized by the Department of English, University of Jammu, in collaboration with Prof D K Rampal Memorial Trust, here today.
Former minister Sham Lal Sharma was chief guest in the inaugural function and in his address, he stressed that such meaningful discussions need to be translated into policy making with an active participation of the academicians as stakeholders. He noted with concern that there has been a wide gap between the policy making and the implementation that is needed to be bridged by shunning the peculiar mind-set.
“Only such revisiting to the policy making, including Education Policy, shall go in a long way in addressing the cause of the Subaltern,” he added.
JU Vice-Chancellor Prof R D Sharma, in his presidential address, called late Prof D K Rampal, a towering personality as a teacher and also as an able administrator whose contribution can never be forgotten.
Prof Sudhi Rajiv, a renowned scholar in the field of Subaltern Studies, was the keynote speaker. She traced all the issues embedded in the fabric of Subaltern Studies from their macrocosmic level at the global scenario to the microcosmic one in the Indian context and observed that now is the time when the subjects and the objects are exchanging their positions, and these shifting paradigms need to be studied in their totality.
Speaking on the occasion, Prof Y R Malhotra, former VC of JU and Chairman, Prof D K Rampal Trust, highlighted the vision and activities of the Trust. He also presented an endowment of Rs 15 lakh to the Vice Chancellor of JU for annual academic activities to be hosted by the Department of English in future in memory of Prof Rampal.
Earlier, Prof Sucheta Pathania, HoD English outlined the purpose and structure of the seminar.
Prof Satnam Kour, Dean Students Welfare of JU, proposed the vote of thanks.
On the occasion, a book of abstracts was also released.
Later in the Plenary session, 85 papers were presented by the scholars of literature from across the country in six parallel technical sessions.
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