About the Founder
Dr C. Panduranga Bhatta, former professor at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta, has been a prolific Indologist with a career spanning over four decades. He has taught at postgraduate and doctoral levels at IIM Calcutta for two decades in the area of leadership, creativity and ethics. He was the founder coordinator of Business Ethics and Communication Group, coordinator of Management Centre for Human Values and the editor of the Journal of Human Values published by Sage Publications. He has been a leading consultant and contributor to several research projects undertaken by prestigious institutions in India and abroad. Books authored by him include Dice-Play in Sanskrit Literature (1985), Origin and Genesis of Chess (1994), Contribution of Karnataka to Sanskrit (1997), Introduction to Sanskrit Poetics (2020) and The Art of Leading in a Borderless World (2020), Dice Play and Origin of Chess in Sanskrit Literature (2022). He has also published many research articles related to leadership, Indology, human values, creativity and innovation, and organisational excellence through leadership in reputed journals in India and abroad. He has been honoured with a gold medal by the Association of Indian Management Schools for securing the prestigious AIMS-ICFAI Best Teacher Award, 2011. He was deputed to Indian Council For Cultural Relations' Chair Professor at Silpakorn University, Bangkok, for two academic years by the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. He holds the position of honorary Advisor at Smart Ai Labs (smartail.ai).
Contact details:
Email: cpbhatta@iimcal.ac.in
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