Recapturing image of the volunteerism vis a vis Entrepreneurship in Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray:150th Birth Tribute

Abstract

Prafulla Chandra Ray, widely known as P C Ray, has, even during his 150^th Birth Anniversary Year, assuredly an inexorable image. Although he had few other celebrities, born in the same year, his is a remarkable exemplar of a preceptor who plunged himself to volunteerism, without dispensing with the quintessence of renaissance that still kept on lingering in his period. The scientific spin-off of renaissance seemed to be in the offing. True that J C Bose and P C Ray, could become, in academic realms, the precursors of science renaissance that could be sustained by Satyendra Nath Bose, Meghnad Saha, Jhan Chandra Ghosh, Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee, Debendra Mohan Bose, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanabis and other luminaries. It is equally true that he could obtain a robust ally in Sir Asutosh Mookerjee for building up institutional edifices in science.