Ravindra Kumar is an Educator and Gandhian thinker. A recipient of Padma Shri from the President of India in 2001, he was also the youngest Vice Chancellor of CCS University, Meerut. He has organised a number of seminars, symposiums and workshops at national and international level on subjects related to value education, religion and politics, non-violence and democracy, morality and ethics in public life, human values and rights, education, peace and development, Gandhian philosophy.
