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on 16-Apr-03 03:54 PM
Putting everything aside for a moment, forgetting how lunatic a soul he is , is Babu am bhattarai in reality the genius architect that he is known to be?
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Local teachers remember Maoist rebel leader
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, April 8
Dr Babu Ram Bhattarai, a Maoist leader of Nepal, who studied in Chandigarh for five years between 1972 and 1977, is again in the news. He led a delegation on March 29 of Maoists holding peace talks with the Nepal Government. His teachers at the Chandigarh College of Architecture, Sector 12, remember him as a quiet and reserved student who was average in performance.
Dr Bhattarai, when he surfaced from hiding after seven years, was recently quoted in the media saying guns had served their purpose and dialogue meant a victory in the struggle as it had forced the government to listen to them. In Nepal when Bhattarai emerged from his exile, the police had to lathicharge onlookers
He was also quoted in the Statesman as saying that the India Nepal Friendship Treaty of 1950 should be re-opened for negotiation. We want a new treaty which is beneficial to both parties. Unless that happens we cannot have good relations.
Bhattarai was hardly the type one would associate with leading insurgents, recollects his teacher Dr Rajnish Wattas, now Principal of the college. He was probably influenced by Marxism during his studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University. He was the last man anybody could suspect of even a minor mischief in class, added the principal.
After doing his intermediate from Amrit Science College, an affiliate of Tribhuvan University, in 1972, he joined the Chandigarh College of Architecture here and graduated in first division.
His batchmates remembered Bhattarai as a friendly, intelligent and dedicated team worker, who was well organised. Despite his short built he evinced interest in sports and other extracurricular activities in the college.
Born on June 18, 1954, Bhattarai is just 54 and weighed only 43 kg when he joined the college here. He was a boarder and was allotted a room in Corbu House.
After doing his B.Architecture from here, which he completed in first division in May, 1977, Bhattarai went to New Delhi and later did his doctorate from Jawaharlal Nehru University there. It was in New Delhi that he met his life partner who was also doing her doctorate. Dr Aditya Prakash, who was principal of the college when Bhattarai studied here, said he was an average student and there was nothing extraordinary about him.
The office records of the College of Architecture still had in file details marks card of the last two semesters of Bhattarai. Interestingly, Bhattarai had done his thesis, as a part of his B.Arch degree, on the Nepalese Embassy in New Delhi.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20030409/chd.htm#cul
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