Born on a Friday the 13th, Professor Ramesh N. Patel has had a multi-faceted career inside and outside academia. Five Sanskrit teachers in High School showered grace on him, inculcating Panini's grammar in his mind. He took B.A. and M.A. in Sanskrit, with numerous awards, scholarships and distinctions in Sanskrit. He took a law degree. He served in the Indian Revenue Service for six years as Class One Income Tax Officer, before coming to the U.S.A. where he earned a Master's and a Doctorate in Philosophy. He taught at Lake Forest College for six years before coming to Antioch College where he taught an unusually wide variety of courses …
Born on a Friday the 13th, Professor Ramesh N. Patel has had a multi-faceted career inside and outside academia. Five Sanskrit teachers in High School showered grace on him, inculcating Panini's grammar in his mind. He took B.A. and M.A. in Sanskrit, with numerous awards, scholarships and distinctions in Sanskrit. He took a law degree. He served in the Indian Revenue Service for six years as Class One Income Tax Officer, before coming to the U.S.A. where he earned a Master's and a Doctorate in Philosophy. He taught at Lake Forest College for six years before coming to Antioch College where he taught an unusually wide variety of courses in Western and Eastern philosophy and Religion for twenty-five years. He retired as Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Antioch in 2002. Since then he has been teaching voluntary adult classes locally in Dayton, Ohio in Vedic Philosophy, Bhagavad-gita and Upanishads. With his wife, Kanta, he owned and ran a small motel business from 1980 to 2014. He has developed his own philosophy which he calls Logical Meta-philosophy. Ramesh very challengingly regards it to be as unassailable as a hardcore philosophy can be and invites anyone to debate him on it. Ramesh is the author of nine books. He can be reached at [email protected]. His bio and book descriptions can be accessed at www.amazon.com/author/rameshpatel.
