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Pramod Kumar
Pramod Kumar is Chairperson, Institute of Development and Communication (IDC), Chandigarh. Prof. Kumar received his PhD from Panjab University on violence in Indian politics. He has conducted a number of empirical studies on Violence and Communalism in eight states of India. He was awarded prestigious Homi Bhabha Fellowship to work on ‘Causation, Content and Form of Communalism in India’ in the year 1988. He chaired Commissions on Governance Reforms for the states of Punjab and Haryana. His work focuses on three interrelated themes in the domain of Social Development, Citizen’s Social Security and Safety Nets; Politics of Development for Conflict Management and Resolution; and Practice of Democracy through empirical methodologies and Analysis of Public Policy. His latest books include: The Idea of New India: Essays in Defence of Critical Thought and Three Shades of Green: Privatization, Pollution and Protest.