Kolkata, 3rd February 2025: Kolkata bore witness to a momentous occasion today with the formal inauguration of the official digital repository of Professor (Dr.) Rama Prasad Banerjee. The august gathering featured the esteemed presence of Dr. Andrew Fleming, British Deputy High Commissioner (East & Northeast India); Professor (Dr.) Mark H. Taylor, erstwhile President of the American Accounting Association (AAA) and Director of the Lynn Pippenger School of Accountancy at the Muma College of Business, University of South Florida; eminent litterateur Rosanne R. Taylor; Lucky Kulkarni, Director & Group Head (HR) of Gina & Company; Professor (Dr.) R.K. Chauhan, former Secretary of India’s University Grants Commission (UGC); renowned thespian Isha Saha; and S.K. Dutta, Chief Advisor & Mentor of EIILM-Kolkata.
This digital compendium manifests as an intellectual and ideological repository, encapsulating the pedagogical, entrepreneurial, philosophical, and altruistic endeavors of Professor (Dr.) Banerjee. His seminal contributions to the domains of managerial education, Vedic tenets of leadership, and moralistic governance have been canonized through this medium. The website is envisaged as a nexus for his avant-garde postulations and pioneering undertakings. Academically, Professor (Dr.) Banerjee holds an MBA and a doctoral degree in Management from the University of Calcutta, has undertaken postdoctoral scholarship at Stockholm University, Sweden, and is a distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Directors, India. His erudition has garnered international recognition, leading to his invitations as a distinguished orator at venerable institutions across Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Currently, he presides as the Chairman & Director of the Eastern Institute for Integrated Learning in Management (EIILM-Kolkata), a premier institution in the Indian business education sphere. Additionally, he is the visionary architect of the EIILM-Kolkata Centre for Leadership & Ethics (EKCLE), an initiative fostering values-centric pedagogy in collaboration with global academia and industry stakeholders.
His digital conduit delineates several of his cardinal initiatives: – Vedic Leadership: An epistemological construct premised upon Rajdharma as elucidated in the Mahabharata and the precepts of maternalistic governance, offering a transcendent paradigm for addressing contemporary leadership exigencies. – Asian Solidarity Initiative: A geostrategic and cultural amalgamation endeavor, this initiative aspires to transcend territorial delineations, fostering synergetic coalescence across the Asiatic expanse to engender a fortified and cohesive geopolitical entity. – Socio-Developmental Paradigm: Rooted in Vedic existentialism, this construct aims at societal metamorphosis through holistic human development, ensuring ontological elevation, egalitarian accessibility, and collective prosperity.
