Professor Udai Pareek: The Thought Leader, Academic Genius and Guru

Professor Udai Pareek: The Thought Leader, Academic Genius and Guru
Prof. Udai Pareek was one of those rare original thinkers and practitioner of truly humane values who by their work, life-long dedicated research and writings enlightened and inspired myriad students, scholars, teachers and consultants in his lifetime, and will continue to do so for the coming generations.

There are very few people who leave an indelible imprint on our lives. Professor Udai Pareek has left such imprint on a very large number of people’s life and learning, and I am privileged to be one of them. Prof Pareek’s enormous original and creative writings, profound insights, his enlightening lectures, his sensitive and empathetic facilitation in group-based learning processes are well known, but to know his humane values, simple living, and broad-minded worldview could be experienced only in working with him closely and in being with him and his family members on some occasions.

I met Prof Pareek and Somnath in 1963 at the SIET Institute in Hyderabad when Prof Rolf Lynton had kindly invited me to Co-train with him in the Extension T-group training programmes that he was conducting. I had returned from Canada and was a faculty member at the University of Delhi after doing my post-doctoral work in Applied Behavioural Science, experiential learning, and experience in several T-groups and Co-facilitating with Prof Craig Lundberg, who had advised me to contact...

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Prof. Abad Ahmad

is a renowned academician and practitioner in the fields of Management and Applied Behavioural Science.

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