Former Delhi University pro-vice chancellor dead
April 26th, 2011 - 4:51 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, April 26 (IANS) V.P. Dutt, former pro-vice chancellor of the Delhi University and a former Rajya Sabha member, died Tuesday after a brief illness. He was 86.
An aide of Dutt said that he was on his way to Mumbai March 31 when he first complained of uneasiness and was admitted to the Breach Candy Hospital there. He was later shifted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in the capital, but his illness persisted and he never recovered.
He is survived by his children, Anuradha and Suhel. Dutt’s wife died last year.
He was a Rajya Sabha member from 1970-80.
Dutt was also a former member of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee on Foreign Affairs, headed the Department of East Asian Studies in the Indian School of International Studies, and subsequently the Department of Chinese and Japanese Studies at the Delhi University.
He used to write on India’s foreign policy and was also a distinguished fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses in New Delhi.
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