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‘Publish research works related to State’

Special Correspondent

Bangalore: The former president of the Kannada Sahitya Parishat Chandrashekar Patil has suggested that the Government publish theses related to the various aspects of the State submitted by scholars as part of their Ph.D. programme.

Prof. Patil was speaking at the release here on Tuesday of 37 dissertations on several aspects of Kannada and culture submitted by Ph.D. candidates to various universities in the State and published by the parishat.

Stating that one should choose a subject for thesis with care, he said that meritorious works should not be allowed to languish in university storerooms.

The Government should publish socially, economically and culturally deserving works in the larger interest as merited Ph.D thesis would promote fresh perspectives, he added.

List

Although it was not the job of the parishat, it had urged all universities in the State to provide a list of theses on vital aspects of the State focussing on language and culture.

A committee of experts came up with a list of 80 works, which was reduced to 37 owing to paucity of funds.

Barring M.L. Shankaralingappa’s “Kannada Sahitya Parishat”, a comprehensive set of research papers on the origins and development of the parishat, the rest of the works had been edited for publication.

Releasing the dissertations, the noted scholar M. Chidananda Murthy said that wallowing in already explored areas in the name of research just for the sake of a doctoral degree would not help either society or scholarship.

Merely collecting and collating data without applying one’s mind to interpret it was not research, Dr. Murthy added.

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