Giridhar Rao
Associate Professor
Sociolinguistics
Azim Premji University
India
Biography
"Giridhar Rao comes to APU from International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (www.iiit.ac.in), where he taught languages and literatures. Before that, he was editor and public awareness officer at the crops research institute ICRISAT in Hyderabad. Concurrent with these assignments has been his involvement with the world Esperanto movement. His PhD dissertation (University of Hyderabad, 1994) was titled ""Beyond the Sense of Wonder: Science Fiction as Adventure Fiction"". His interest in science fiction led him to learn the language Esperanto. This in turn got him interested in multilingualism in society, and education policies for linguistic minorities. He has several publications in English and Esperanto on these themes. "
Research Interest
language and education
