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The Acquire scholarship camp which began at the Kerala University Students’ Centre was inaugurated by social scientist and economist Professor Balakrishnan Pulapre, who is also the Director of the Centre for Development Studies (CDS). In his inaugural address, he spoke on the rewards of social sciences and the societal challenges it is facing.
Kerala society and its youngsters are more obsessed with the personal appearance of people rather than studying a society’s vibrancy and instructive past of the people. They prefer to study the human anatomy all their lives rather than the interesting and exciting domain of the social sciences. This is robbing the society of its happiness, Pulapre said.
He interacted with the 120 young scholars, who are participating in the Acquire camp, and spoke to them regarding the global meltdown, black money, corruption, development etc. Pulapre invited the young scholars to visit CDS and spend a day there in discussions. He volunteered to meet all the expenses for the same.
Professor Karthikeyan Nair, former Director, Higher Secondary Education, also spoke on the evolution of social sciences.
Professor Suresh Jnaneswaran, Dean of Social Sciences, University of Kerala, presided over the session.
The camp will continue on Monday and Tuesday.
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