Chairman's Introduction
Dr. Gururaj Karajagi
Chairman, HKIS
- Dr. Gururaj Karajagi popularly called as the “Teacher of Teachers” is a doctorate in Chemistry and has published over 22 research papers in international journals.
- Implemented Total Quality Management (TQM) in the colleges of Karnataka.
- Dr. Karajagi was the Principal at V.S. First Grade College for Women, Bangalore, India for 16 years.
- He was the Director of the V.V.S. Academic and Administrative College, founder Principal and Academic Director of the Jain International
- Residential School and the founder Director of the International Academy for Creative Teaching. Presently, he is the Chairman of the Academy for Creative TeachingHe aims to provide an ambience in which every student discovers and realizes his/her complete potential. His dream is to transform their potentials into reality without having any inhibitions of being discriminated on the basis of race, religion, caste or social status.
- He is a well-known columnist and has completed 2900 columns. His fifteen books entitled “Karunaalu Baa Belake” are immensely popular and have seen several editions. Dr. Karajagi has written many articles on ‘Sufi’ philosophy and has published a book on ‘Sufi’. As of now, he has authored twenty-four books. He has edited many books including ‘Shikshana Shilpa’ – a huge collection of articles on education brought out by the J.S.S. Maha Vidyapeetha, Mysore.
- He has published over hundred articles on all aspects of education in National and International journals.
- He is also known for his daily spiritual discourses on a bilingual T.V. channel – Sri. Sankara with over 500 programmes on Dasa Sahitya and Vachana Sahitya.
- He has delivered more than fifty series of lectures at the Gokhale Institute, which are brought out as CDs.
- He is considered as an outstanding motivational speaker and his You Tube channel – “Knowledge is spherical” has more than four crore views.
- Through the Academy for Creative Teaching, of which he is the Chairman,
- Dr. Karajagi is instrumental in building over 100 schools of very high quality all over the world.
- He is generally considered as an institution builder.
- His areas of interest include Creativity, Creative & Critical Problem-Solving Skills, Communication skills, Motivation, Work ethics and Human Values.
- He has designed a complete curriculum in Creativity which is being used in different Universities.
- He has travelled and lectured extensively both in the East and the West and has conducted more than 2000 training programmes for educational and corporate organisations.
- He has been a teacher for over four decades without a moment’s regret.