quantum wrote:Since when has Dadi janki been a "Doctor"?
She was awarded an "
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters" by GITAM University, a "Deemed University" which in India means "deemed to be university", a private college which has reach university level in a limited area (single institution). It teaches technology and management.
Generally one cannot use a honorary degree as a professional qualification, for example to practice medicine or psychology, but it does give you the right to use the title of "Dr." Most holders don't do this, because such use is considered 'tacky' but that won't stop the BKs. It certainly does not have the same weight as an earned doctorate degree. Most institutions of higher education generally ask that recipients "refrain from adopting it as a misleading title".
Dadi Ratan Mohini also got one from another low level university.
I don't know the backstory. Immediately I would suspect it is just some mutual PR backstratching, GITAM promoting itself by promoting the BKs, perhaps there are BK supporters within GITAM ... is there a "management leadership" course connection? I don't know, I will have to look into it.
At the end of the day, it means nothing. The university probably does not know what the BKs are really about, and the BKs will exploit and exaggerate it like hell. Just more social climbing up the slippery pole of power and influence ... yet another photo-opportunity masquerading as "world service".
As for "Doctor of Letters" ... I doubt Janki could write a letter on her own these days. They should have given her a degree for ""Doctoring the Murlis and BKWSU's History".
Janki gets a lot of credit for stuff she never did or even opposed happening.
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