Chairman, Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Ministry of Human Resource development, Government of India; Chairman, Indian Philosophical Congress and Asian Congress of Philosophy; Earlier General President, All India Philosophy Association; Professor and Former Head, Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi; Major research fields: Philosophy and Culture; Selected publications: Introduction to Scientific Method and Logical Reasoning (2011), Applied Philosophy, Value Theory and Business Ethics (2010), Studies in Ramanuja Vedanta (1975) , etc.