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Compliments from Around the World

"It is wonderful to see the people's dedication and University's commitment to this program"

Harsh Bhasin
Consul General of India, New York

"Congratulations on your success. You are setting a good model for others at Stony Brook."

Rollin C. Richmond
Former Provost, SUNY at Stony Brook

"Congratulations! What a wonderful accomplishment. May your work thrive for the benefit for many people."

Georg Feuerstein
Director, Yoga Research Center
Lower Lake, CA

"I write now to congratulate you on this welcome addition to what remains an altogether too small family of centers for South Asian studies in this country. Here in Seattle, we have been engaged in this struggle to gain recognition for and appreciation of India and its neighbors for many years. The growth of the Indo-American community has been an important component in recent enhancements of support and interest."

Frank Conlon
Professor of History
Director South Asia Center for India Studies
University of Washington, Seattle

"…our congratulations!"

Narindar K. Aggarwal
Associate Asian Librarian & Professor of Library Administration
University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign

"This is truly a wonderful achievement, and a gift to the South Asian American community. Congratulations on your successful campaign!"

Manish Vij
India Currents
Editor, South Asian American Literature

"Congratulations on the new India Studies program."

C.J. Walia
Publisher, IndiaStar: A Literary-Art Magazine
Berkeley, CA

"Congratulations from me and my colleagues in South Africa on the establishment of the Indian Studies Centre. I wish you and the Centre staff a very fruitful engagement in the Indian Studies area for many years to come. We in South Africa, especially at the University of Durban-Westville (which used to be historically an Indian University) have a great deal of resources for Indian Studies mainly that of the South African Indians. I would like to establish linkages with your center. I am trying to establish an Asian Studies Center with emphasis on Indian Studies."

Pratap Kumar
University of Durban-Westville, South Africa

"Congratulations on the inauguration of your Center for Indian Studies! It is a splendid development and, as a historian whose field is Chinese studies but who has a keen interest in India (having gone there to school for three years), I am delighted to see this development at a sister campus."

John Chaffee
Program Chair, NYCAS
Associate Professor & Chair
Department of History
SUNY Binghamton

"A friend informed me about the establishment of a new center for Indian Studies at SUNY Stony Brook. I am sure that the center's activities will bring a new level of awareness on the accomplishments and contributions of India in the U.S."

Alok Kumar
Department of Physics
State University of New York at Oswego

"Congratulations! on building the Stony Brook India Center.

Tashfeen Imdad
University of wisconsin-Madison

"Congratulations for the center."

Tej K. Bhatia
Professor of Linguistics
Syracuse University

"We came to know of the exciting news of beginning of a new Center for India Studies at Stony Brook under your directorship. I visualise the present model of creating an India Studies program as more feasible for which you and your colleagues deserve to be congratulated."

K. R. Mittal
K. K. Agencies
Online Store of Indian Publications, New Delhi

"I am currently working at the University of Southern California and considering various avenues to opening an Indian American center here. Any input will be greatly appreciated."

Neera Nijhawan
University of Southern California

"Just read about the new India Center at Stony Brook and wish you best success with this exciting enterprise."

Andrew Cohen
Associate Professor of Art
University of Central Arkansas

"Best wishes on establishing the new Center of India Studies at Stony Brook. Can donations be made to the Center through the Stony Brook Foundation."

Khal Spencer, Associate Specialist
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
U. of Hawaii

Meena Sachdeva
Assoc. Professor, Language Arts
Kapiolani Community College, Honolulu

"wow! Congratulations on the inauguration of the Center for Indian Studies."

David Magier
South Asia Librarian
Columbia University

"I am glad that the Stony Brooks Center for India Studies has been established. Congratulations on your hard work!"

Sushil Mittal
Research Professor and Director,
International Institute of India Studies
Editor, International Journal of Hindu Studies
Series Editor, World Heritage Studies in Colonialism
Quebec, Canada

"Your remarks on the purpose of the India Studies Center were moving and inspiring. No one could have attended that ceremony without feeling excited about the prospects for quality intellectual interactions and education, something wonderful for Stony Brook."

Carolyn E Mcgrath
English Department
SUNY at Stony Brook

"Congratulations on the final realization of the dream. You must be now feeling proud of the well deserved achievement."

E. Annamalai
Director (retired)
Central Institute of Indian Languages
Visiting Professor at Leiden University, Nehterlands

In higher technical education, [India] has done remarkably well. The Indian Institute of Technology are among the worlds best educational institutions of higher learning. … Taken together with few other universities they provide the Indian youth with the very best engineering education that one could aspire for … India, and some would say even the world, stands enriched with a galaxy of outstanding Indian engineers. Very few countries can boast of similar achievements in education.

V.S. Arunachalam,
Former Scientific Advisor to the Government of India
and Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Public Policy, CMU
This Time, A Tryst with Technology, in Ananya: A Portrait of India