Presentation of books to the Dean of Tribhuvan University's Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

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News Rising Nepal - 4th September 2007
A large number of books were handed over by Mr. Nishchal N. Pandey, Secretary of South Asia Foundation (Nepal) to the Dean of Tribhuvan University's Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Prof. Dr. Ramesh Raj Kunwar at a function held here today.



These books were donated by UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Madanjeet Singh on behalf of the South Asia Foundation (SAF).		   Titles on regional cooperation and SAARC, peace-building and governance, country-specific books on individual South Asian countries including a copy of the "SASIA Story" authored by Ambassador Madanjeet Singh are included in the collection. Assistant Dean of the Department Prof. Dr. Shishir Subba and other members of the faculty were also present on the occasion.

Speaking at the function, Mr. Pandey briefly outlined the activities of the SAF and the desire of Ambassador Madanjeet Singh to assist individual universities in SAARC countries so that they are able to erect a solid course structure on South Asian studies.

He hoped that the books would be useful to the students aspiring to go to the South Asian University (SAU) soon to be established in India.

Dean Prof. Dr. Kunwar thanked SAF and Ambassador Singh for the generous contribution of books which he said would be of great help to the Department, members of the faculty, researchers and to the students.

Since the faculty for South Asian Studies has not yet been established, he informed that the books would be useful also to the department of peace and developmental studies which was just about to begin in the university.
The Dean said that students of all faculties under the Humanities department would gain from these books.