Dipak Nandy

Dipak Nandy is an Indian Marxist and academic who was the founder and first director of the Runnymede Trust, and a member of the Annan Committee.

Personal life

Born in Calcutta, India, on 21 May 1936, he was schooled at St. Xavier's College, where he won Tagore Gold Medal for English Essay. He arrived in Britain in March 1956 and, after working on the night shift of Cadbury Schweppes, he was offered a place in the English Literature Department at the University of Leeds. He has always maintained that Leeds, in the 1950s, was in range, variety and intellectual heft the most exciting place to be. At the beginning of his final year (1960), he met Margaret Gracie, whom he dated from 1960 to 1964. In 1964, after finishing, he married Margaret Gracie, in 1964 when he was a lecturer at Leicester University. They separated in 1969.^[1] In 1972 he married Anne Louise Byers and their youngest daughter, Lisa Nandy was born in 1979.

Publications

• Race and Community 1968
• How to calculate immigration statistics, Runnymede Trust 1970
• Sir Peter Medawar O.M., C.H., C.B.E., F.R.S. 1915–1987. A Personal Memoir Runnymede Trust 1988

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