Shiv Viswanathan

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Shiv Visvanathan is currently a Professor at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat. He was a regular visitor to the Shri AMM Murugappa Chettiar Research Centre (MCRC). He was very interested in picking the brains of my guru Dr. C V Seshadri. While waiting for CVS to get free, Shiv and I would chat. I found him an exceptional thinker with an original world view. Many of things I have written about are from my engineers’ view point. Shiv always had a higher level of understanding that I sometimes could not keep up with. In the link below there is a fairly detailed piece on his thoughts, impressions on Dr. CVS and the work done at MCRC. http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/cvs-shiv.pdf

Shiv’s current areas of interest: Sociology of Science and Technology, Violence and Globalisation, Corruption, Sociology of Disasters, Culture and Communication, Futures.