By Prof.Ramadhikari Kumar, Rector, Jawaharlal Nehru University 

Prof.Ramadhikari Kumar who has been the pioneer of conference interpreting education in India describes the opportunities that exist in the field of translation. In order to increase the profile of translators and harness the potential that exists in India for translation professionals, he emphasizes upon the need for creating a pool of well connected and well trained human resources who are dedicated to providing quality services and using professional standards and practices.

Given that translation enables the globalization as well as localization of software and other products, he explains how the translators play a key role in the knowledge economy.

Prof. Kumar has been one of the Founder Pillars of Jawaharlal Nehru University, he has been consistently writing books and articles on topics of Russian grammar and Translation, interpretation. He has published a good number of teaching materials and guided more than a dozen research scholars at P.hD level. 

He has been working towards developing and consolidating interpretation as a discipline and has since long been conducting courses on simultaneous interpretation at the Centre of Russian Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.