Puttaparthi, 22 November 2021:

Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning (SSSIHL) (Deemed to be University) held its 40th Annual Convocation in the Poornachandra Auditorium, Prasanthi Nilayam, Andhra Pradesh in the Divine Presence on 22 November 2021 at 9:10 a.m.

The grand ceremony saw the Honourable Chancellor, Sri K Chakravarthi, IAS (Retd.), admit candidates to their degrees.

SSSIHL was honoured to have the Chief Justice of India, Hon’ble Mr. Justice N. V. Ramana, as the chief guest for the event.

Born in an agricultural family in the Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh, Justice N.V Ramana enrolled as an Advocate in 1983 and practiced in the High Court of Andhra Pradesh, Central and Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunals, and the Supreme Court of India in Civil, Criminal, Constitutional, Labour, Service, and Election matters. He has specialized in Constitutional, Criminal, Service, and Inter-State River laws. Before being Elevated as a Judge, Supreme Court of India on 17.02.2014, he held several prominent positions including the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court, Acting Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court, and a permanent Judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, in addition to the role of the Additional Advocate General of Andhra Pradesh. Justice Ramana was appointed as the 48th Chief Justice of India by the President of India on 6 April 2021. He took Oath on 24 April 2021.

The event began at 9:10 a.m. when the Chief Guest along with the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, Registrar, Controller of Examinations, Members of the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning Trust, the Board of Management, Academic Council, Deans, HoDs and other distinguished delegates, entered the Poornachandra Auditorium in Prasanthi Nilayam with the Registrar of the University carrying the ceremonial mace.

Following the invocatory Veda chanting from Taittriya Upanishad, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. (Dr.) C B Sanjeevi prayed to the Revered Founder Chancellor to declare the convocation open. The Convocation was then declared open in the Divine voice of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba.

Speaking on the occasion, the Vice- Chancellor gave a glimpse into the high-quality research for societal benefit done leveraging the world-class Central Research Instruments Facility (CRIF) and the Central Research Laboratory (CRL) at SSSIHL. He said it was a proud moment for SSSIHL, when the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), approved the ‘SAIC-19 AgKit’ Rapid Antigen Test Kit for COVID-19 in February 2021, that was developed by SSSIHL, making us the only academic institution to have received the approval in that category. Patented in the name of SSSIHL, the ‘SAIC-19 AgKit’ is now aiming for US-FDA approval, he added. On the Innovation side, he said SSSIHL is pursuing over 30 projects with ‘Technology Readiness Level’ of 5 or more, in (a) Healthcare, (b) critical Public goods & services, (c) Food & Nutrition, (d) Cyber Security applications and (e) Insurance.

The Vice-Chancellor then highlighted various international collaborative research projects with bilateral funding opportunities under Indo-Swedish, Indo-Italian, Indo-Australian, Indo-Canadian, and Indo-US programs. He also reported two such recent collaborations, one with Uppsala University in Sweden and the other with Macquarie University, Australia and University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA. He then went on to congratulate the faculty and students for the various academic achievements won by them for their work in their respective field of study.

He concluded by fondly remembering the Revered Founder Chancellor Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba’s prophetic statement “The seed has been planted; it will sprout and spread, heavy with fruits, providing shade, security and sustenance to all”, from His Discourse during the inauguration of the College Building of the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Anantapur Campus 50 year ago, praying that He continues to guide us to take His noble Mission to greater heights as envisioned by Him.

The convocation oath was then administered by the Vice-Chancellor, after which the Gold Medallists of the Institute were awarded by the Chief Justice of India, Hon’ble Justice N V Ramana. In addition to Gold Medallists, the doctoral research scholars were conferred their Ph.D. degrees by the Chancellor and given special mementos blessed by Founder Chancellor Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba.

The Chief Justice of India, Hon’ble Justice N V Ramana in his Convocation address to the students, said education is much more than academic learning, and that true education helps imbibe the moral values and virtues of humility, discipline, selflessness, compassion, tolerance, forgiveness, and mutual respect. And that it helps elevate our character and broaden our thinking, enabling us to take the right decision when faced with complex challenges in life. Students of SSSIHL are fortunate to have Baba’s philosophy enshrined at the centre of their curriculum which believes that the ‘End of Education is Character’.

SSSIHL he said was built around the concept of a modern Gurukula, where cutting edge modern education is being offered along with the essence of Indian Culture, values, and lifestyle is inculcated in the students ensuring all-round development, mental fortitude, and a sense of social responsibility, which he said was, unfortunately lacking in the modern education being offered today.

Exhorting students to look beyond their own needs, he emphasized on their responsibility towards enriching society, by propagating knowledge and empowering people and communities around them to usher in a progressive world free of conflicts and violence. He concluded by reminding the students of their pledge where they promised to support the cause of sound learning, humanity, morality, and spirituality and urged them to uphold their oath in life.

The graduates were then blessed with the Divine Benediction by our Revered Founder Chancellor, Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba Baba who addressed the students as ‘Emancipators and Patrons of education’. Baba then spoke on how true education can prepare a student for life, and not merely to earn a living. Likewise, the true meaning of ‘Educare’ imparted to students at SSSIHL He said was ‘to bring out that which is latent or hidden in us’ and asked the students to try to bring out the ‘Divine feelings’ hidden within and make it the second wheel of the chariot of life, the first being worldly education.

The event concluded with the National Anthem and Mangala Aarati.

As part of the 40th convocation, a Drama entitled “Wind Beneath My Wings” will also be streamed on the Prasanthi Mandir Live channel of YouTube, at 7pm later this evening. The Drama entitled- Wind Beneath My Wings is a story of a day in the life of a tiny bird that is all set to take its first leap of faith for a graceful flight unto a wonderful realization

View recording of the 40th Annual Convocation of SSSIHL.

About the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning

The Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning (SSSIHL) (Deemed-to-be-University), Puttaparthi, is one of the few institutions in the world offering values-based education to students at the University level. Ethics and morals form the undercurrent of every subject taught at the Deemed to be University, providing a holistic framework of inter-personal development for its students combined with academic excellence. This year, we celebrate the commencement of the University’s 40th year of excellence.

The Deemed-to-be university hosts 1435 students across four campuses in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, India and provides free education to all programmes of study. The programmes offered include undergraduate, postgraduate, professional and research. It has a merit-based open admissions policy for all, irrespective of income, religion or social status.

SSSIHL also provides a strong research environment, with exceptional academic practices, that has resulted in the growth of national and international collaborations. The Central Research Instruments Facility (CRIF), based at the Prasanthi Nilayam Campus of the SSSIHL, is one of the few facilities in the country that houses advanced Characterisation / Analytical Tools to carry out Translational Research in various areas of Science and Technology.

For further information, visit: sssihl.edu.in

Media contact:

The Registrar, SSSIHL, email: registrar@sssihl.edu.in or media@sssihl.edu.in. Tel: +91 8555287239

Puttaparthi, 18 November 2021:

Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning (SSSIHL) (Deemed to be University) will hold its 40th Annual Convocation at Poornachandra Auditorium, Prasanthi Nilayam, Andhra Pradesh in the Divine Presence of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba on Monday, 22 November 2021 at 9:10 a.m.

Hon’ble Mr. Justice N.V. Ramana, Chief Justice of India is the Chief Guest.

The grand ceremony will see the Honourable Chancellor, Sri K Chakravarthi, IAS (Retd.), admit candidates to their undergraduate, postgraduate, professional and doctoral research degrees.

The event will feature speeches by the chief guest Hon’ble Mr. Justice N.V. Ramana, the Vice-Chancellor, SSSIHL Prof. (Dr.) Carani B Sanjeevi, and a Divine Benediction by the Revered Founder Chancellor, Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. The event will be streamed on the Prasanthi Mandir Live YouTube channel.

This will be followed by a convocation drama in the evening, that will also be streamed on the Prasanthi Mandir Live YouTube channel at 7p.m

Full release to follow the events.

For further information on the event, and for the schedule, visit: sssihl.edu.in

About the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning

The Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning (SSSIHL) (Deemed-to-be-University), Puttaparthi, is one of the few institutions in the world offering values-based education to students at the University level. Ethics and morals form the undercurrent of every subject taught at the Deemed to be University, providing a holistic framework of inter-personal development for its students combined with academic excellence. This year, we celebrate the commencement of the University’s 40th year of excellence.

The Deemed-to-be university hosts 1435 students across four campuses in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, India and provides free education to all programmes of study. The programmes offered include undergraduate, postgraduate, professional and research. It has a merit-based open admissions policy for all, irrespective of income, religion or social status.

SSSIHL also provides a strong research environment, with exceptional academic practices, that has resulted in the growth of national and international collaborations. The Central Research Instruments Facility (CRIF), based at the Prasanthi Nilayam Campus of the SSSIHL, is one of the few facilities in the country that houses advanced Characterisation / Analytical Tools to carry out Translational Research in various areas of Science and Technology.

For further information, visit: sssihl.edu.in

Media contact:

The Registrar, SSSIHL, email: registrar@sssihl.edu.in or media@sssihl.edu.in. Tel: +91 8555287239

Identifying the Issue

• EPDS is a validated screening tool used in the assessment of perinatal depression (PND)
• Responders answer EPDS questions differently due to PND associated stigma depending on the mode of administration
• This study evaluates the differences in EPDS scores used for assessment of PND over a span of 9 months

Objective of the Research

• Assessment of the difference in the EPDS scores between self and interviewer mode of administration
• Investigation of the baseline clinical and psychosocial characteristics of the study subjects associated with the difference between the two modes of administration
• Evaluation of the differences in antenatal depression, postnatal depression and PND rates using the two modes of EPDS administration

Who should read this?

This article is an outcome of study parameters based on socio-psychological assessments and is recommended for psychiatrists, mental health clinicians, physicians, students of mental health and obstetrics & gynaecology practitioners.

Solution

EPDS is a self-administered screening tool for assessing PND. However, the EPDS usage in the Indian population is predominantly interviewer-administered. It is extremely necessary to address the limitations involved in the assessment of PND in rural settings. The present longitudinal observational study was intended to evaluate the differences in EPDS administration between the self-administered and interviewer-administered modes to understand and improve the test score interpretations.

Key Features and Benefits

• The study helps in bridging the knowledge gap in PND assessment and health care catering to pregnant women and new mothers in the rural South-Indian population
• The study includes data related to preclinical, clinical and socio-demographics relevant to psychiatry and details the socio-cultural diversity of the region as it relates to mental health

Impact

• This study has a direct societal relevance, particularly in rural settings, with respect to healthcare administration for perinatal women
• The current research work sheds light on the possibility of systematic bias involved in administering EPDS questionnaires in the Indian population that needs to be still understood
• This study increases the awareness on the impact of the mode of EPDS administration, especially in non-English speaking, culturally diverse and low or middle-income countries such as India

Team

Pradeep Kumar Badiya, Sasidhar Siddabattuni, Venkatesh Srinivasan and Sai Sathish Ramamurthy
STAR Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prasanthi Nilayam, 515134, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India

Debarshi Dey
Independent Researcher, Biostatistician, Munich, 82152, Germany.

Akkamahadevi C. Hiremath
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Sri Sathya Sai General Hospital, Whitefield, Bangalore, 560066, India.

Raj Lakshmi Nalam
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Sri Sathya Sai General Hospital, Prasanthi Nilayam, 515134, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Sridhar Vaitheswaran and Aarthi Ganesh
Schizophrenia Research Foundation, Chennai 600101, Tamil Nadu, India

Yendluri Prabhakar
Department of Psychiatry, Government medical college/Government General Hospital, Anantapur, 515001, Andhra Pradesh, India

Paper Published in: Asian Journal of Psychiatry

Title: Effect of mode of administration on Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale in the South Indian population: A comparative study on self-administered and interviewer-administered scores

Read Paper Here: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1d~HG6gcL74Lx8

Identifying the Issue

• Number of reports has suggested symptoms of dyspnea, an indication of impaired lung function with reduced diffusion capacity post SARS-CoV-2 infection
• Need for a more reliable and accurate oxygen monitoring device that can complement pulse oximetry in the remote management of COVID-19 recovered individuals

Objective of the Research

• Monitoring of O2 uptake in SARS-CoV-2 recovered participants to assess their lung function in comparison with healthy individuals
• Designing of a low-cost, eco-friendly, high sensitive, plasmonics based sensor

Who should read this?

COVID-19 researchers, COVID-19 recovered patients, Pulmonologists, COVID Care health experts, Chemical sensor & nanotechnology scientists.

Solution

The trilateral international collaboration between the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning (SSSIHL), India, Macquarie University, Australia (MACQ) and University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), United States of America began in the year 2017. Over the years, the collaboration has grown stronger with multiple collaborative projects and publications between these institutions.

In one such successful research collaboration, a new research study is now published in ACS Sensors. The technology developed is:

• A wood-microfluidics chip & plasmon-coupling based biodegradable and eco-friendly O2 sensor with ultrafast response time (~0.2 sec) and high sensitivity
• This is suggestive that SARS-CoV-2 recovered participants had comparatively lower oxygen uptake than healthy participants
• While this clinical data is preliminary in nature, this unique study presents novel insights into an under researched problem that is of paramount significance given the larger health implications of this ongoing pandemic and the nascent understanding of the post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2

Key Features and Benefits

• Next-gen breath sensors that will help achieve low-cost lung health diagnostic devices
• This technology will help in understanding the impact of COVID-19 on lung health through non-invasive mode of evaluation
• Use of novel, biodegradable wood chips for microfluidics will help save environment from plastic-based one-time use microfluidic chips

Impact

• First time 27-fold phosphorescence emission enhancement using surface plasmon-coupled emission platform
• Use of novel and reusable Au(III) complexes having fluorescence and phosphorescence emission for designing ratiometric O2 sensor
• Highly potential technology for post-COVID lung health monitoring

Team

• STAR Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning: Bebeto Rai, Dr. Venkatesh Srinivasan Dr. Kalathur Mohan Ganesh, Dr. Naga Sai Visweswar Kambhampati, Prof. Carani B Sanjeevi and Dr. Sai Sathish Ramamurthy
• MQ Photonics Research Centre, MQ Sustainable Research Centre, Macquarie University: Dr. Robert Malmberg and Dr. Koushik Venkatesan.
• Center for Advanced Sensor Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County: Dr. Abhay Andar, Dr. Sai Sathish Ramamurthy and Prof. Govind Rao

Paper Published in: ACS Sensors

Title: Surface Plasmon-Coupled Dual Emission Platform for Ultrafast Oxygen Monitoring after SARS-CoV-2 Infection

Read Paper Here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssensors.1c01665

Dr. Sai Sathish Ramamurthy (STAR Lab, SSSIHL) in a trilateral collaboration with Dr. Chandramouli Subramaniam (Nanostructured Material Lab, IIT-Bombay) and Dr. Shivakiran Bhaktha (Photonic Systems Laboratory, IIT-Kharagpur) has published a new paper in Nanophotonics (Walter de Gruyter publication) demonstrating unusual ‘photoplasmonic’ effects (as they call it in the article) with the use of gold nano-assembly termed ‘sorets’ and Nd2O3 nanorods. The unavoidable losses in the gold nanoparticles are overcome with these functional metasurfaces in photonic crystal-coupled emission (PCCE) platform developed by the team in the year 2020, thereby demonstrating outstanding performance of the subject platform for several sensor applications.

Identifying the Issue

• Sensors are widely used in industrial processes, monitoring community well-being, homeland safety, criminalistics, environmental health supervision and point-of-care diagnostics
• Nanomaterials made of metals (generally called plasmonic materials) are throughout-the-world used in the evolution of sensor technology systematization. However, their accurate potential is beleaguered by inevitable inherent Ohmic losses that encumber the functional performance of any sensing platform
• Therefore, there is constant need for novel synthetic routes and advanced material platforms for global market sensor industries, using nanochemistry-based novel methods

Objective of the Research

• Ascertaining the ground elemental causes which leads to unproductive Ohmic losses in terms of basic physico-chemical aspects of the individual nano-constructs
• Discovering a frugal & viable technological solution to abate/preclude the Ohmic losses and recuperate the performance of gold nanomaterials, consequently demonstrating a translational approach to offer sensor-based industries with materials with grander efficiencies
• Refining the overall sensitivity and specificity of photoplasmonic sensor platform using cut-rate metal-dielectrics in comparison with cost intensive and hazardous nano-sensor techniques

Who should read this?

Anyone in industry, working directly or indirectly on advanced sensor technologies or sensing related know-hows including, security, reconnaissance, specialist (intensive) care units, environmental safety monitoring mechanisms, therapeutic technologies and disease diagnostics. Further this article will be extremely useful to researchers currently faced with the problem of ‘Losses’ in metamaterials dependent on plasmonic nanoparticles.

“Photoplasmonics”– A blossoming, rapid & realistic solution for the snags in biosensor technologies

• The novel nano-engineering strategies for diverse applications in optics and nano-bioengineering domains are discussed in this work
• In spite of copious electron densities of ≈ 5.9 × 1022 cm−3, excellent biocompatibility, structural tunability and utility in numerous biosensors, so far the quenching phenomenon in gold nanoparticles has remained an unescapable caveat
• Although sharp-edged nanostars and decorated nanohybrids have been explored in the past, the enhancement factor has been modest at 200-fold. The PCCE platform developed in this work with the use of gold sorets and high refractive index Nd2O3 ‘Huygens sources’ demonstrated unprecedented >1500-fold enhancement factor

Key Features and Benefits

• Use of judicious hybrid metal nano-assembly – dielectric nanorods assemblage.
• Experimental demonstration of suppressed quenching and >1500-fold PCCE enhancement.
• The multifold ‘gap-based antenna’ and ‘lightning-rod’ effects generated by the nano-assemblies and nanorods that sustain multitudinous hotspots catering to excellent sensitivity of PCCE platform
• The proposed hybrid methodology is useful in disease diagnostics for monitoring early stages of the disease and also aid in the fabrication of smart sensor chips for use in Point-of-Care (POC) devices

Impact

• The collective and coherent coupling between localized Mie and delocalized Bragg plasmons (of sorets), dielectric plasmons (of Nd2O3), highly confined & intense Bloch surface waves (of PCCE platform) aided in realization of dequenched, as well as amplified > 1500-fold enhancements at the photoplasmonic nanocavity interface, thereby addressing the quenching predicament
• The PCCE platform is expected to find immediate deployment for real-time monitoring of health and hazardous in environment. This study presents itself as a milestone to explore a plethora of exciting disruptive nano-engineering with the aid of different permutations and combinations of nanomaterials of different geometry and number, chosen from the Periodic Table. We anticipate the crucial role of machine learning and data science pertaining to materials properties in this regard.
• The proposed technology is a jumping-off point for sensor-based industrial establishments or market seeking such devices with augmented sensitivity. The high sensitivity aids in early disease diagnostics, ecological safety and bio-nano-engineering and related applications
• The rapid, cost-effective and simple plasmon mixing strategy used in the photoplasmonic platform with advanced nano-engineering are of immense benefit for low- and middle-income countries, in resource-limited settings and bottom of the pyramid.

Team

Seemesh Bhaskar,^† Pratyusha Das,^‡ Maku Moronshing,^¶ Aayush Rai,^† Chandramouli Subramaniam,^¶ Shivakiran Bhaktha B. N. ^‡ and Sai Sathish Ramamurthy^†.

^†STAR Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, CRIF, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prasanthi Nilayam, Puttaparthi, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh 515134, India.
^¶Nanostructured Material Lab, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076, Maharashtra, INDIA.
^‡Photonic Systems Laboratory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India -721302

Paper Published in: Nanophotonics

Title: Photoplasmonic assembly of dielectric-metal, Nd2O3-Gold soret nanointerfaces for dequenching the luminophore emission

Read Paper Here: https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2021-0124

Ms. Avanthika K, an alumna of the SSSIHL DFNS, Anantapur, received the ‘Certificate of Best Performer’ for her paper titled “Development and Shelf-life Studies of Quinoa Flour Enriched Gluten-free Cookies” presented at the ‘Innovation in Food Processing and Nutritional Sciences’ virtual conference organised by the Department of Food Processing Technology, AMET University, Chennai, on 29 June 2021. The paper was co- authored by Dr. Meera Manikkavachakan, research supervisor & Assistant Professor, DFNS.

Ms. Avanthika completed her M.Sc. in Food and Nutritional Sciences in 2018, and is currently working as a Dietician in the Sri Sathya Sai General Hospital, Puttaparthi. The work presented was part of her M.Sc. project and was carried out under the supervision of Dr. Meera M.

Organised by the Department of Food Processing Technology, Academy of Maritime Education and Training (AMET), this virtual conference on ‘Innovation in Food Processing and Nutritional Sciences’ was a two-day conference that focused mainly on the Innovations in Food Processing and Technology with an aim to bring together innovative leaders and also research scholars to share and discuss the rapid scientific and technological advances that are transforming the way food is being produced, processed and consumed while exploring new possibilities.

SSSIHL congratulates Ms. Avanthika K for the recognition and making the University proud, and wishes her the very best for her future.

Sri Seemesh Bhaskar, DST-Inspire SRF, SSSIHL, was awarded the Prestigious Dr. K. V. Rao Scientific Society Research Award 2021 at a ceremony held online. Seemesh, won the Bhoutikam Runners-up award in the Physics category, for his innovative research explorations performed at STAR Lab, CRIF, Dept. of Chemistry, SSSIHL on the topic “Hybrid Soret Nano-assembly for Ultrasensitive Surface Plasmon-Coupled Emission and Photonic Crystal-Coupled Emission Interfaces”. The award includes a prize Rs. 10,000/- and a trophy to the runner up in each category.

Dr. K. V. Rao Scientific Society Research award was formed in 2001 and is held annually to promote scientific research, popularize science and encourage young scientists to continue their career in basic sciences. Young researchers from all over the country below the age of 30, working in the field of Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Biosciences are selected for the award, based on the scrutiny and recommendations of the panel of judges (eminent scientists) after careful evaluation of research work and the presentations by the candidates in each category of allied sciences. The research work to be presented for the award should also be part of the doctoral program carried out or being carried out by the candidate.
 

This year the prestigious award ceremony was held in the august presence of the President, KVRSS, Mr. Anil Kumar Kutty, I.A.S and Prof. Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan, Chancellor of Central University of Rajasthan and NIIT University, an eminent Scientist and Ex-Chairman of ISRO for 9 long years and recipient of three highest civilian honors, The Padma Shri (1982), The Padma Bhushan (1992) and The Padma Vibhushan (2000).

Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning (SSSIHL) congratulates Sri Seemesh Bhaskar for the above prestigious recognition and for making the University proud.

Link for the Dr. K. V. Rao Scientific Society program: https://www.kvrss.org/research-awards.html

YouTube link of the award being presented to Sri Seemesh Bhaskar: https://youtu.be/BdJUbbqHRw0?t=7533

Puttaparthi, 22 September 2021:

Dr. Sudha Seshayyan, Vice-Chancellor, The Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University, Chennai, delivered the memorial address at the S G Sundaraswamy Memorial Lecture, held at the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning (Deemed-to-be-University), Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh, on Wednesday, 22 September 2021.

An outstanding academician with rich administrative experience Dr. Sudha is well known for her excellent oratory skills, and her penchant for history and spirituality. She has over 25 titles to her credit as an author in subjects ranging from literature, spirituality, history, biography, and social values and has had the privilege of translating former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam’s book into Tamil. Dr. Sudha immersed the audience on the topic ‘Science of Spirituality’ sharing several examples to show how both Science and Spirituality are not two entirely separate subjects and that they are inter-connected at all levels of existence. In her impeccable style, Dr Sudha kept the audience deeply engaged and enthralled all through her talk.

The S G Sundaraswamy Memorial Lecture is an annual endowment lecture at the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning (Deemed-to-be-University) instituted in honour of late Sri S G Sundaraswamy—a doyen of the legal profession in Bengaluru, by his son, Sri S S Naganand, Trustee, Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning (Public Charitable Trust), Sri Sathya Sai Sadhana Trust and Sri Sathya Sai Media Foundation.

About the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning

The Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning (SSSIHL) (Deemed-to-be-University), Puttaparthi, is one of the few institutions in the world offering values-based education to students at the University level. Ethics and morals form the undercurrent of every subject taught at the Deemed to be University, providing a holistic framework of inter-personal development for its students combined with academic excellence. This year, we celebrate the commencement of the University’s 40th year of excellence.

The Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning (SSSIHL) also provides a strong research environment, with exceptional academic practices, that has resulted in the growth of national and international collaborations. The Central Research Instruments Facility (CRIF), based at the Prasanthi Nilayam Campus of the SSSIHL, is one of the few facilities in the country that houses advanced Characterisation/ Analytical Tools to carry out Translational Research in various areas of Science and Technology.

For more information, contact:

The Registrar, SSSIHL, email: registrar@sssihl.edu.in or media@sssihl.edu.in. Tel: +91 8555287239

With Bhagawan’s immense love & grace, the Staff and Students of the Brindavan Campus of Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Bengaluru, were blessed with a new Healthcare Facility on 4 September 2021. This noble initiative was lovingly supported by our alumni.

The facility houses a doctor’s consultation room, a furnished medical ward with beds, and a pharmacy to meet the day-to-day health care needs of the staff and students of SSSIHL, Brindavan Campus, and the residents of the Ashram.

Located in the S. N. Singh block of the Brindavan Ashram, the new Healthcare Facility was inaugurated by our revered Chancellor, Sri K. Chakravarthi, I.A.S., Prof. Dr. C.B Sanjeevi, Vice-Chancellor, SSSIHL and Dr. Ramkumar, Senior Consultant, and HoD, General Medicine, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences (SSSIHMS), Whitefield, in the presence of Prof. B Sai Giridhar, Registrar, SSSIHL, Dr. Kamakshi Kannan, Senior Consultant, and HoD, Pediatrics, SSSIHMS, Whitefield, Prof. C.N. Sundaresan, Director and Dr. T. Ravi Kumar, Warden of the SSSIHL Brindavan Campus, along with other staff and research scholars of the institute.

Video – https://youtu.be/2uv_4608R7M