Interview

Abstract

Professor Basab Chaudhuri, Ph.D. (Tech) in Chemical Engineering from UDCT, Mumbai (now ICT) was a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, Professor and then Registrar of the University of Calcutta, spanning a period from 1991 to 2015, before joining the post of Vice Chancellor of the West Bengal State University, Barasat in 2015, and where he has been working now. During his academic career, he was an active researcher and worked in various capacities in the Netherlands, the USA, South Korea, and other places. He got several gold medals for best publications in journals. He was an INSA - KOSEF research scientist. He was a Fulbright - Nehru Academic Administration awardee. He loves to read and write. Basab Chaudhuri’s profile is given in Research gate. He believes in the dictum, “To thine own self be true.†He loves his students and colleagues and tells them to remain reflective and humane in spite of everything.