Fr Prof George Thadathil SDB has a doctorate from the School of Religion and Philosophy, University of Madras, making a study on Sri Narayana Guru Movement in Kerala. He was a Junior Fellow, Indian Council of Philosophical Research during the period (1998-2000). He was the Head of the Department of Philosophy at Salesian College Sonada (2000-2009) and Principal (2000-2023).
He has co-edited the work Communities and Identity Consciousness: South Indian Trajectories a Madras University publication (2004) based on his research on community transitions in the last century, Cultural Identity in Nepali Language and Literature a Salesian College Sonada Publication (2005) and edited Subaltern Perspectives: Philosophizing in Context an Asian Trading Corporation, Bangalore, Publication (2005). He is the author of Vision from the Margin (2007), and Co-author of Teesta on the Run (2016). His translation of the Life of Brahmarshi Narayana Guru (2016) and Divya Apkar (2023) – Daivathinte Vikruthikal by M Mukundan – from Malayalam (his mother tongue) to Nepali (the language of Darjeeling Hills) have been projects completed for Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi.
His latest works are Being A Priest in India (2023), Democracy in Darjeeling (2023), and Christian Education and Democracy in India (Penprints 2024). He has over 30 research articles and book Chapters to his credit.
He has been engaged in Teaching, Research and Educational Administration. In 2019 he was awarded the Silver Plaque by the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) for leadership in Education. He was an Independent Researcher at Princeton University Library New Jersey (June–September 2023), University of San Francisco (October–November 2023), and University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand (January 2024) working on a book project. On 6 December 2023, he delivered the 20th Anniversary Special Lecture at the Centre for Buddhist Studies, University of Hong Kong on “The Role of Buddhism in the Multi-religious Space of Darjeeling” and on 11 April 2024 delivered the Zheda Anthropological Seminar Series Lecture 2024 on “Living Dialogues: Interfaith Practices of Rural Life in Darjeeling” at the Department of Sociology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. Since 1 September 2024 he has been appointed as the General Coordinator for Salesian Universities and Colleges in Don Bosco Global Network.
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Fr Prof George Thadathil SDB has a doctorate from the School of Religion and Philosophy, University of Madras, making a study on Sri Narayana Guru Movement in Kerala. He was a Junior Fellow, Indian Council of Philosophical Research during the period (1998-2000). He was the Head of the Department of Philosophy at Salesian College Sonada (2000-2009) and Principal (2000-2023).
He has co-edited the work Communities and Identity Consciousness: South Indian Trajectories a Madras University publication (2004) based on his research on community transitions in the last century, Cultural Identity in Nepali Language and Literature a Salesian College Sonada Publication (2005) and edited Subaltern Perspectives: Philosophizing in Context an Asian Trading Corporation, Bangalore, Publication (2005). He is the author of Vision from the Margin (2007), and Co-author of Teesta on the Run (2016). His translation of the Life of Brahmarshi Narayana Guru (2016) and Divya Apkar (2023) – Daivathinte Vikruthikal by M Mukundan – from Malayalam (his mother tongue) to Nepali (the language of Darjeeling Hills) have been projects completed for Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi.
His latest works are Being A Priest in India (2023), Democracy in Darjeeling (2023), and Christian Education and Democracy in India (Penprints 2024). He has over 30 research articles and book Chapters to his credit.
He has been engaged in Teaching, Research and Educational Administration. In 2019 he was awarded the Silver Plaque by the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) for leadership in Education. He was an Independent Researcher at Princeton University Library New Jersey (June–September 2023), University of San Francisco (October–November 2023), and University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand (January 2024) working on a book project. On 6 December 2023, he delivered the 20th Anniversary Special Lecture at the Centre for Buddhist Studies, University of Hong Kong on “The Role of Buddhism in the Multi-religious Space of Darjeeling” and on 11 April 2024 delivered the Zheda Anthropological Seminar Series Lecture 2024 on “Living Dialogues: Interfaith Practices of Rural Life in Darjeeling” at the Department of Sociology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. Since 1 September 2024 he has been appointed as the General Coordinator for Salesian Universities and Colleges in Don Bosco Global Network.
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