Jain Digest 2007 11 1

Author(s): Federation of JAINA
Publisher: USA Federation of JAINA

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JAIN DIGEST. Winter 2007
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providing a total Jain immersion experience. On return from workings of JAINA by establishing nearly 30 sub committees. India, ISSJS supports these scholars to carry out further research This allowed JAINA to become a broad-based organization in Jainism. In this issue of Jain Digest we wish to honor all and the membership of JAINA increased from 8 Jain Centers active volunteers of ISSJS and Dr. Sulekh Chand Jain in to nearly 50. particular for making this insightful program a success. Sulekhji . "Effect of Price on the Demand for Durables: Modeling, serves as the Program Director, of the ISSJS and Prof. Cromwell
Estimation and Findings," (with Ram C. Rao), Journal of Crawford, of University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, serves
Business and Economic Statistics, 8, (April 1990), 163-170. as the Academic Director. The Indian director of ISSJS is Dr.
(A review of this paper was published in the International Shugan Chand Jain.
Journal of Forecasting.) A Brief Introduction to Dr. Sulekh Chand Jain "Modeling Purchase Timing and Brand Switching Behavior Dr. Sulekh Chand Jain was born in a religious family in Delhi.
Incorporating Explanatory Variables and Unobserved
Heterogeneity," (with Naufel J. Vilcassim), Journal of After recciving his M.Tech in mechanical engineering from
Marketing Research, 28, (February 1991), 29-41. (A finalist TIT Kharagpur, he went to England in 1965 where he got his
for the O'Dell Award) Ph.D. In 1969, he moved to United States of America and has lived in several places including Berkley, California, Worcester, On the academic front, Sulekhji has authored several papers Massachusetts, Cincinnati, Ohio and Houston, Texas. He has on Jainism and has provided help and guidance in the taught Mechanical Engineering at Punjab Engineering College, publications of at least 4 books on Jainism. In 1996 and 1997, Chandigarh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T), he along with Dr. Surendra Singhvi taught a regular credit Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Laval University, Quebec, hour course in Jainism at University of Dayton in Dayton, Canada.
Ohio and in 2006 at Rice University in Houston. Most recently,
he has been involved with improving education, teaching and During the last 40 years, Sulekhji has always been active in
research programs in Jainology at PV Research Institute in many religious and social activities. Dr. Jain has served as
Varanasi. In 1993, he presented a paper in the Parliament of Worlds Religions in Chicago. He also presented a paper at the Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace Conference which was held in Washington, D.C. In July 1998, Dr. Jain organized a World Conference on Jainism and Ecology at Harvard University, which was attended by many Jain Scholars from USA, Canada, India and U.K including Dr. L. M. Singhvi and late Dr. Nathmal Tatia. Sulekhji has believed, practiced, preached, propagated and supported whole heartedly the concept and creation of a one unified, non-sectarian, cohesive, dynamic, responsive, forwardlooking and visionary Jain Sangha in North America. His vision behind starting ISSJS is to create a large body of academicians that can create momentum to bring the awareness level of Jain Heritage at par with that of Buddhism and Hinduism.
President of many Jain centers, Jain Academic organizations, and other similar forward-looking Jain and non-Jain organizations. Sulekhji's association with JAINA started in 1981, and he held the position of President from 1989 to 1993. During his tenure as JAINA President many new activities were started. These included the establishment of Jain Digest, JAINA Matrimonial Information Service, Scholar Visitation program, YJA, and JAINA Library. He was also instrumental in creating the concept of JAINA Charitable Trust, decentralizing the
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