<p>“Wicked” is a fitting description for a vice chancellor, said the outgoing Delhi University vice chancellor Dinesh Singh.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Singh, whose last working day would be October 28, was addressing students at a Wednesday varsity conference commemorating 100 years of Mahatma Gandhi’s return to India from South Africa.<br /><br />“Please don’t send him to me for several reasons. I’m not a competent person to guide him. Secondly, he doesn’t know that I’m a vice chancellor,” he said, replying to a question from the audience after his nearly 45-minute lecture on Gandhi’s quest for “truth”. <br /><br />The questioner, a woman who learns charkha spinning at the varsity’s Gandhi Bhawan, had requested an appointment for his college-going son, who she said is “highly impressed” from Singh. <br /><br />“Vice chancellor ki paribhasha yahi hoti hai ki wo dusht vyakti hota hai (the only defining characteristics of a vice chancellor is that he is a wicked person),” Singh told the woman.<br />“But I would like to gift him a book, which he should definitely read.”<br /><br />On how he followed Mahatma’s principles in his life, he said, “I have already stated that I’m not even on Gandhiji’s path. I can only tell you that I consider myself fortunate because after getting married I tried to identify my shortcomings and weaknesses.”<br /><br />Singh during his perhaps last address as a DU VC said it pains him that students are not aware about the “life lived by Gandhiji”. <br /><br />“Students have an impression of Gandhi, but that it is very deep,” he said and urged students to source “behavioural skills” from the Mahatma’s life. <br /><br />The VC also suggested books on Gandhi. <br /><br />Singh’s five-year term has courted several controversies, including the introduction of now-scrapped four-year undergraduate programme. <br /><br />The programme taught students a course on “Integrating Mind Body and Heart”, centred on the ideology of the Father of the Nation.<br /></p>
<p>“Wicked” is a fitting description for a vice chancellor, said the outgoing Delhi University vice chancellor Dinesh Singh.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Singh, whose last working day would be October 28, was addressing students at a Wednesday varsity conference commemorating 100 years of Mahatma Gandhi’s return to India from South Africa.<br /><br />“Please don’t send him to me for several reasons. I’m not a competent person to guide him. Secondly, he doesn’t know that I’m a vice chancellor,” he said, replying to a question from the audience after his nearly 45-minute lecture on Gandhi’s quest for “truth”. <br /><br />The questioner, a woman who learns charkha spinning at the varsity’s Gandhi Bhawan, had requested an appointment for his college-going son, who she said is “highly impressed” from Singh. <br /><br />“Vice chancellor ki paribhasha yahi hoti hai ki wo dusht vyakti hota hai (the only defining characteristics of a vice chancellor is that he is a wicked person),” Singh told the woman.<br />“But I would like to gift him a book, which he should definitely read.”<br /><br />On how he followed Mahatma’s principles in his life, he said, “I have already stated that I’m not even on Gandhiji’s path. I can only tell you that I consider myself fortunate because after getting married I tried to identify my shortcomings and weaknesses.”<br /><br />Singh during his perhaps last address as a DU VC said it pains him that students are not aware about the “life lived by Gandhiji”. <br /><br />“Students have an impression of Gandhi, but that it is very deep,” he said and urged students to source “behavioural skills” from the Mahatma’s life. <br /><br />The VC also suggested books on Gandhi. <br /><br />Singh’s five-year term has courted several controversies, including the introduction of now-scrapped four-year undergraduate programme. <br /><br />The programme taught students a course on “Integrating Mind Body and Heart”, centred on the ideology of the Father of the Nation.<br /></p>
