Krishna S. Dhir

Krishna S. Dhir was born in Ballyugunge, Calcutta. His father, an official of the Indian Railways and Tata Iron & Steel Company, the Late Hari Das Dhir, was born in Jalandhar of Abu Al-Asar Hafeez Jalandhari. His mother, Sushila Devi Kochhar, was from Kasur of Syed Abdullah Shah Qadri, Bulleh Shah, and Bade Ghulam Ali Khan. When he was born, philosopher Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was the Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University. His maternal grandfather, the Late Advocate Harbhagwan Das Kochhar of Kasur, admired the writings of the educator-philosopher and named him after the great philosopher. He also served as Dean at Berry College and at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. He was elected a Fellow of the Operational Research Society (FORS) in the UK in 2004 and the president of the Decision Sciences Institute for 2011-2012 by its worldwide membership.