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© Rajendra Dengle Professor emeritus of German Studies, Dr. Rajendra Dengle has a long and illustrous career as a university lecturer, scholar, dean and literary expert. Dengle first studied philosophy and German at the University of Pune; in 1979, he received his MA in German literature at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, where he completed his doctorate in 1990. From 1979 to July 2021, he taught at the Centre of German Studies, School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies, JNU, with special focus on literary theory, history of German literature, modern German literature, and cultural studies. 
Doctoral and postgraduate scholarships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) took him to the universities of Bielefeld, Bonn, Heidelberg, Bayreuth, Wuppertal, and Freiburg. He worked as secretary of the Goethe Society of India from 2004 to 2010 and was responsible for the publication of its yearbook. Dengle has translated numerous publications and literary texts from Marathi into German as well as from German into Marathi.

© Milind Brahme Milind Brahme studied German at Fergusson College, Pune and at the Centre of German Studies, JNU, New Delhi, where he completed his PhD in 1997 under the guidance of Prof Dr Rajendra Dengle. Titled Wandern ohne Ankunft, his doctoral thesis was a comparative study of the literary work of the Marathi writer G A Kulkarni and Franz Kafka.
Milind has taught German language and literature at DU, JNU, and is currently Associate Professor for German at IIT Madras. He has worked as a professional translator-interpreter and has been part of literary translation projects – which he enjoys the most.
He has been associated with the Goethe Society of India since its inception, serving as joint secretary between 2004 and 2010, and helping with the production of the Society’s Yearbook. He edited the 2007 volume of the Goethe Society’s Yearbook titled Translation as Cultural Praxis.
Milind has been a recipient of numerous scholarships, notable in this context being one from the Goethe Institut Pune in 1986 which took him to Germany for a Sommerkurs, and in fact triggered the interest in studying Germanistik.
His interest in questions of pedagogy and education has led to successful and continuing research initiatives in cooperation with the Institut für Sonderpädagogik of the University of Würzburg in the areas of Multi Grade Multi Level Pedagogy and Inclusive Education.
He was recently appointed DAAD Research Ambassador for South Asia for the Humanities and Social Sciences for the period 2022-2025.