The late P.T.K. Panicker shaped the human relations landscape at the heart of India's industrial backbone—Tata Steel, Jamshedpur. His most enduring academic contribution began in the late 1940s, when he collaborated closely with the founding Jesuit fathers—including Father Jerome D'Souza and Father Michael Windey—to lay the cornerstone of XLRI Jamshedpur, India's oldest business management school, and ended with this association with the founding of the HR management programm

Remembering Father Stan Swamy (1937–2021). A dedicated Jesuit priest and fierce champion of tribal rights, he spent his life standing up for the marginalized and oppressed in India. His legacy of courage, compassion, and relentless pursuit of justice continues to inspire us all. Rest in peace. Our early efforts to bridge data and social reality were set during my time as a student at the Madras School of Social Work from 1979 to 1981. Serving as a research associate and docum

V. Achuthan (1956–2018) An alumnus of the Madras School of Social Work and a distinguished advocate of the Madras High Court. A man of quiet discipline, intellectual rigour, and unswerving moral seriousness, he remained a steadfast friend and a pillar of principled support for nearly four decades in every one of my legal pursuits of justice., till his demise. An alumnus of the Madras School of Social Work (Class of 1979) and a distinguished advocate of the Madras High Court.

Mary Clubwala Jadhav, Founder, Madras School of Social Work My time at the Madras School of Social Work marked a turning point in my life. The path that led me there was neither planned nor particularly purposeful. In the final semester of my master’s degree in Economics in 1978, a few of us—rebellious backbenchers more in spirit than in consequence—decided to attempt the Union Public Service Commission’s civil services preliminary examination, newly introduced that year as