Seminar dwells on challenges in academic writing

Tribune news service

Chandigarh, November 21

Professor Krishna Kumar, former Director, NCERT, Honorary Professor, Department of Education, Panjab University, Chandigarh, emphasised the need of writings and drafting of the writing to make it worth publishing at the inaugural session of two-day national seminar-cum-workshop on ‘Academic Writings: Addressing the contemporary challenges’, organised by the Department of Education, here today.

He talked about the detailed process and the importance of academic writings in communicating ideas. He showed his concern on the declining quality of publications in the present day. He said writing was an expression of thought where one had to actively comprehend things to read the mind of the reader.

Professor Shankar Jha, Dean, University Instructions, and officiating Vice-Chancellor, in his address said interdisciplinary research was need of the hour and expressed his concern that Sanskrit had been neglected and needed to be bought to the mainstream research area. He also mentioned that scholarly articles are the bridge to express our heritage and modern work.