Interview with Prof. T. Krishna Kumar

This month, our Oral History Narratives page has added another interview – with Prof. T. Krishna Kumar, who served the institute from 28 September 1978 to 16 December 1986, his primary affiliation being with the Habitat Sector and secondary affiliation with the Centre for Agriculture and Rural Development (CARD).

In conversation with Prof. K. Kumar, Prof. T. Krishna Kumar spoke about how he came to join IIMB after being interviewed in Boston by IIMB’s first director Prof. N. S. Ramaswamy; the roles of academic administration that he shouldered which included that of Coordinator of the Fellow Program in Management (FPM), Convenor of the Consultancy Review Committee, Chair of the Departmental Canteen Committee. Prof. Krishna Kumar spoke of IIMB’s early sectoral orientation and how his earlier experience as a consultant in the US dealing with contracts with the US federal government had added to the course work that he developed for the OBPs he conducted for public sector enterprises in India; his research and consultancy projects in the Habitat Sector.

Video snippets from the IIMB Oral Histories interview with Prof. T. Krishna Kumar are listed below. They can be viewed at  https://www.iimb.ac.in/archives/Krishna-Kumar.php

Interview with Prof. T. Krishna Kumar

1.      Academic Administration: Coordinator of Fellow Program in Management (FPM)

Duration: 3.49 minutes

2.      Sectoral Orientation of IIMB

Duration: 2.05 minutes

3.      Research Projects

Duration: 2.36 minutes

4.      Introduction of Tenure Track System for Faculty

Duration: 2.08 minutes

For a document with details of Professor T. Krishna Kumar’s role in guiding doctoral students as Chair of the Dissertation Advisory Committee (DAC) & Member of the Dissertation Advisory Committee (DAC) please refer to this link. Click here

For Professor T. Krishna Kumar's Curriculum Vitae as received from him, please refer to the following link. Click here

Professor T. Krishna Kumar was the Coordinator of IIMB’s Fellow or Doctoral program from June 1978 to February 1981and was actively involved in its restructuring. For details about the evolution of IIMB’s doctoral program, and reminiscences of IIMB’s doctoral students from some of its earliest batches, refer to the document ‘Reminiscences: Doctoral Program – Alumni Lookback’ – Click here