Delhi college to felicitate Suu Kyi

November 13, 2012: The Lady Shri Ram College in New Delhi would felicitate its alumni Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi during her visit to India. Suu Kyi, who has studied political science from the college, is coming to India tomorrow at the invitation of United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi.

She will visit the college to meet the principal, students and faculty. "The college will felicitate her and try to make her feel good and nostalgic," said Veena Ravikumar, an associate professor at the college’s political science department.

Ravikumar said that the leader will meet final year students of the political science department. “We will present a little programme," she added. "Two of my students will interview her for the department journal," she added.

One of Suu Kyi's cloest friends from her younger days, Malavika Karlekar, has described the Myanmar leader as a "quiet, obedient girl with a great flair for creative writing".

She lived with her mother Aung San on 24, Akbar Road, which is now the Congress party headquarters. Her mother had been named the ambassador to India and Nepal in 1960.

The young woman, who later battled the Myanmar military junta, did her schooling at the Convent of Jesus and Mary in the city before joining the college.

Suu Kyi, who will be in India from Nov. 13-18, will meet Sonia Gandhi and deliver the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Lecture on his birth anniversary on Nov 14.

She will visit Bangalore and two villages in Andhra Pradesh to study women empowerment and development models.