Dinesh Mohan, Contrarian Scholar Who Devoted a Lifetime to Affordable, Safe Urban Transport
Dinesh was an extraordinary faculty member and a public intellectual in the Indian academic setting.
Dinesh Mohan at a lecture in February 2015. Photo: TERI
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‘Contrarian’ is the word that came to my mind when I first met Dinesh Mohan more than three decades back. We were introduced in the faculty lunch club soon after I joined IIT Delhi. After a hearty welcome, he unleashed a barrage of questions, with genuine curiosity, about research on computer vision which was my subject. Later would come the provocative comments â on the social relevance of such research, on the potential evil of such technology (e.g. as used in missiles during the Gulf War), and on how, beyond the elegant geometry and estimation theory of my discipline, lay deeper ethical concerns. His gruff tone did make me defensive and even irritated, yet the friendliness and lack of aggression made me en
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Gbenga Omotosho, Commissioner for Information and Strategy in Lagos State writes that access to justice has received a big boost in Lagos State under the administration of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, with the introduction of some reforms and deployment of technology
Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice Mr. Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN) recently announced the introduction of an online platform for checking the status of Legal Advice and printing of Certified True Copies as part of initiatives of the Sanwo-Olu administration to enhance access to justice.
Onigbanjo stated that by October this year, six courts will be fully automated to provide Realtime Transcript Solution services for cases handled in the State while parties involved would have the opportunity to apply for transcripts of cases immediately after court sessions.