Memoirs of a Half Baked Economist

This is the author’s journey from an ordinary middle class family of five brothers and sisters and the struggles and the speed breakers he had to face along with the numerous anecdotes both salty, tangy and quirkily humourous that made his life a tapestry of great learning and experience. It is from experience that we gather knowledge and from knowledge comes the desire to be fruitful in any field. The author picked up the fragments from life’s teaching since early childhood when he almost lost his life due to wrong treatment and an incident of electrocution, till the time when he got his third life from God and continued to experience the many seasonings that ‘Time’ had to offer. 

He was a product of a typical vernacular medium school in a remote village. However, he did his college education from one of the best colleges in the region and post graduation from one of the best universities in the country. He could have appeared for the competitive examination successfully and join in the lucrative post. But by defying the desire of his family, he joined in the teaching profession in a remote part of North East India in order to build the human capital in higher education and to contribute to Nation building. Through his dedication, commitment, academic excellence and administrative acumen he has now reached one of the top positions of academic administration in a central university of India. 

Finally he decided to pen the stages of his growth, diverse experience and mention all the people who, in one form or another, helped to shape his career. Each and every person he met, whether students, research scholars, colleagues, family, friends, superiors and even the interactions with delegates in seminar and conferences have helped to shape his thinking process which he has tried to portray in the eight sections of this autobiography. He also dwelt on the challenges of teaching of a dreary subject like economics among the first generation graduate and post graduate students. He also analysed the opportunities and challenges of researches in social sciences in the State of Arunachal Pradesh due to non-availability of socio-economic data and the way forward for meeting these challenges.