My Association with Udai Pareek

I heard about Udai Pareek when I joined M.A. in Psychology in the year 1966 at Osmania University Hyderabad. In my first year, I was told about Udai Pareek who was the President of Andhra Pradesh Psychological Association promoted by the Department of Psychology at Osmania University. I never met him as he already left for the USA and was teaching at the University of North Carolina. He was Director Behavioural Sciences at the Small Industry Extension Training Institute (SIET), Yousufguda, and Hyderabad. I was introduced by Dr.E. G. Parameswaran to Dr. Somnath Chattopadhyay who was deputy Director at SIET. I had the opportunity to work on a research project correlating productivity and organizational climate of small-scale industries. He used to tell me to work with Dr. Pareek if ever I get an opportunity to work with him. In my second year, one of our seniors got admitted to a Ph. D. program at North Carolina and we all gave him a big send-off. He went to work with Dr. Udai Pareek. A few weeks after he left, we got a letter from him with full praise of Dr. Pareek, who came to...