Inauguration of Book Forum at BIM, Trichy

August 16th

Bharathidasan Institute of Mangement saw the kickoff of its Book Forum on August 16th. The book forum was inaugurated by the Dr. Prema Nandakumar, a well-known resource person and speaker at various national and international conferences. Prof. S. Sundar, the PGP Chairman of Bharathidasan Institute of Management was also present at the inauguration.

Dr. Nandakumar is an eloquent keynote speaker and draws her inspiration from sources as varied as the Vedas, ancient Hindu, Buddhist and Jain epics, Indian and international literature. She has several published books in the field of criticism, biography, translation, commentary and fiction. She obtained her PhD in 1961, at the age of 22, for her study of Sri Aurobindo's epic poem Savitri which was followed by post-doctoral research work comparing Dante and Sri Aurobindo.

During her inaugural address Dr. Prema Nandakumar expressed her views how literature and management were on identical tracks. She explained how reading a wide variety of books from Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species to Karl Marx’s Das Capital, could give the future managers a wider perspective. Dr. Nandakumar with numerous illustrations from literature kept the audience glued to her talk. Before concluding on her inaugural address she shared her 49 years of experience in the reviewing books.

“Taking up a book with an open mind, facing and entertaining ideas which were against ones belief, entertaining one self by reading and conveying their ideas about the book was important if students were to run the book forum successfully” – Dr. Nandakumar said.