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Educational Qualification Areas of interest
Previous Teaching and Research Experience: Major Publications: Books:
Current Responsibilities Papers
Current Projects Specific Interests and Hobbies

Educational Qualification:
 Ph.D. in Linguistics, M.A. in English

Previous Teaching and Research Experience:
I have all along been working in the CIIL. My research is in the area of language use   among linguistic minorities, a small project on language use in the legal domain and at  the moment I am working on language use in the Industry. My concerted effort has   been to apply my research to society. A research result from these domains has   evolved into formulating a Course in Language and communication for unemployed   graduates.

Current Responsibilities:
As Head of the Research Group on Communication and Literacy, my current responsibility is to devleop syllabi for Courses in Communication in the Indian Languages including English. And formulate strategies to promote higher literacy retention skills. This is to be done in Coordination with the state governments, institutes and non-governmental organization.

Current Projects:
Devleoping Academic Programmes in Communication

Areas of interest
Sociology of Language; Cross-culture studies; translation studies; Language and Communication

Major Publications: Books:
 
  • A Sociolinguistic Investigation of the English Spoken by the Anglo-Indians. 1986. CIIL.
  • Dynamics of Language Maintenance among Linguistic Minorities. 1986. CIIL
  • Communication & Interaction Networks. 1988
  • Blossoms of a Lonely Heart. A writers Workshop Redbird Book. Calcutta. 1990.

Papers
 
Dynamics of Language Use, Attitude and Social Identity: the Tamils in London IJDL. 1992
 
The inquistion Table. (Poem) in Boletim Do Instituto Menezes Braganaca. 1994 Goa.
 
Missing Links: From Research to Development. In Papers in Applied Linguistics. 2001. CIIL
 
Methodology of Data Collection and Data Analysis in Sociolinguistic REsearch. In Research Methodology in Linguistics. CIIL. 2001.

Specific Interests and Hobbies
 
Interested in the upliftment of the socially destitute people, such as orphans and the elderly. I enjoy   music, dance and other art forms.
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