Prodosh Aich

PRODOSH AICH was born in Calcutta in 1933. High School and studies in PHILOSOPHY in India. Studies in ETHNOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY and SOCIOLOGY at the University of Cologne. University teacher and publicist. Taught sociology at Cologne (Germany), Rajasthan (Jaipur, India) and Oldenburg (Germany) universities. Besides books he has published many essays, papers in readers and learned journals, made radio features and documentary films for Television, altogether more than 100 titles and participated in radio and television talk-shows. He is still an Indian though he has been living in Germany for a longer period than most Germans.

LÜGEN MIT LANGEN BEINEN (Lies with long legs) 2003 is his NINTH book. He also wrote FARBIGE UNTER WEI?EN (Coloured amongst whites) 1962, DIE INDISCHE UNIVERSITÄT (The Indian university) 1971, SOZIALE ARBEIT (Social Work) 1972, "DA WEITERE VERWAHRLOSUNG DROHT ..." ("As further decline apprehended ...") 1973, WIE DEMOKRATISCH IST KOMMUNALPOLITIK? (How democratic is municipal politics?) 1977, MÖGLICHKEITEN UND GRENZEN DES PROJEKTSTUDIUMS (Chances and Limitations of Project Studies) 1978, RATHAUS-PLÜNDERER(City-Hall Plunderers) 1986, PREIS DES AUFRECHTENGANGS (Thorns on a Righteous Path) 2001.

The publication of DIE INDISCHE UNIVERSITÄT (The Indian university) and RATHAUS-PLÜNDERER (City-Hall Plunderers) was sabotaged. PREIS DES AUFRECHTENGANGS (Thorns on a Righteous Path) includes the suppressed book The Indian University and narrates the tale of this process as a documentary which went on for thirty-five years.