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Nationality
Indian
Name
Ram Puniyani
Role
Professor
Born
25 August 1945 (age 79) (
1945-08-25
)
Occupation
writer, communal harmony volunteer, public speaker, doctor, teacher, medical researcher
Books
Communal Politics, Fascism of Sangh Parivar
Awards
Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration
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Ram Puniyani (born 25 August 1945) is a former professor of biomedical engineering and former senior medical officer affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He began his medical career in 1973 and served IIT in various capacities for 27 years, beginning 1977. In December 2004, he took voluntary retirement to work full-time for communal harmony in India. He is involved with human rights activities, communal harmony and initiatives to oppose the rising tide of fundamentalism in India. He is associated with the organisations All-India Secular Forum, Center for Study of Society and Secularism and ANHAD. In 2006, he was awarded the Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration.
Puniyani was born in British India in 1945 and raised in a refugee Punjabi-speaking business family in the central Indian town of Nagpur. He completed a Visharad (Master's degree) in Hindi literature alongside matriculation and would then earn both an MBBS as well as an MD at Nagpur Medical College. Upon graduation, he moved to Mumbai where he found a job as a senior medical officer at the Indian Institute of Technology campus in Powai, Mumbai. After about ten years of service as a physician, he diverted into the then fledgling Blood Rheology Laboratoy set up in collaboration with the faculty of mechanical engineering at IIT. After obtaining tenure, and having successfully mentored doctoral and master's degree students, Puniyani decided to dedicate himself to the cause of "restoring" secular principles to post-Babri demolition, post-Mumbai rioting India. He resides in Powai with his wife, a practising physician whom he met as a professor of medicine at Nagpur Medical College. He has two sons who are settled as professionals in various companies.
Activism
Puniyani has been spreading the message of peace and amity through lectures, publications, workshops and meetings and by travelling extensively to different parts of the country disseminating messages of secularism, pluralism and communal harmony. His lectures focus on the need for national integration and communal harmony. He is also the Course Director of 'Peace and Conflict Resolution' Workshop, being conducted by Center for Study of Society and Secularism. Is associated with various secular initiatives and has been part of various investigation reports on violation of human rights of minorities. Has been part of an Indian People's Tribunal that investigated the violation of rights of minorities in Orissa and Madhya Pradesh. He is known for his articles and essays which regularly appears in Indian magazines and newspapers. He also runs a fortnightly e-bulletin 'Issues in secular politics'.
He regularly conducts seminars and workshops on themes like, threat of communal politics to democratic society, human rights, values of freedom movement and values of Secularism, conversions, uniform civil code debate, partition tragedy, Kashmir Imbroglio, tasks for secular movement. Have been addressing College students and teachers on these themes regularly. He regularly publishes articles and essays in magazines and newspapers. Running a fortnightly e bulletin ‘Issues in secular politics’. His articles being translated in Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati languages..
Awards
Maharashtra Foundation (US) award for Social awareness about threat of Communal Politics-2002
Association For Communal Harmony in Asia-ACHA Star Award for Peace and Communal Harmony-2004
Fr. Machio Memorial Foundation Humanitarian Award 2005
Indira Gandhi National Integration Award 2006
National Communal Harmony Award 2007
Gaints Group of Powai (Mumbai)Appreciation Award 2003
All India Christian Council, Mumbai: Graham Stains Certificate of Honor 2003
Honored by Karmaveer Dadasaheb Gaikwad Sanskritik Kendra on January 26, 2003
NCHRO's Mukundan C.Menon award,2015
Works
Clinical Hemorheology: New Horizons (New Age International, 1996), ISBN 9788122407754
Applied Clinical Hemorheology (with Hideyuki Nimi, Quest Publications, 1998), ISBN 9788187099062
The Other Cheek: Minorities under Threat (Media House, 2000), ISBN 9788174950819
Second Assassination of Gandhi (University of Leicester, 2002), ISBN 9788174951489
Communalism: What is False: What is True (with Khalid Azam, Bombay Sarvoda Friendship Center, 2002)
Communal Politics: Facts Versus Myths (2003), ISBN 9780761996675
Communalism: Illustrated Primer (Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust and J&P Publications, 2004), ISBN 978-8186219324
Hindu Extreme Right-Wing Groups : Ideology and Consequences (Media House, 2004), ISBN 9788174951731
Fascism of Sangh Parivar (Media House, 2004), ISBN 9788174951953
Religion, Power and Violence: Expression Of Politics In Contemporary Times, (SAGE, 2005), ISBN 9788132102069
Contours of Hindu Rashtra: Hindutva, Sangh Parivar And Contemporary Politics (Kalpaz, 2006), ISBN 9788178354736
Indian Democracy, Pluralism and Minorities (Global Media, 2006), ISBN 9788188869190
The Politics behind Anti-Christian Violence (compilation of investigation committee reports, Media House, 2006), ISBN 9788174952370
Terrorism: Facts versus Myths (Pharos Media, 2007), ISBN 978-81-7221-033-5
Fundamentalism: Threat to Secular Democracy (eBook, IdeaIndia.com, 2007), ASIN B005D7FCYY
Contemporary India: Overcoming Sectarianism: Terrorism (Hope India, 2008), ISBN 9788178711454
