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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
Urban12 hours ago
‘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 – 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 aggres ....

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