A JOURNEY OF FOUR DECADES

It is interesting to see Prof Narain’s passionate journey of four decades at JNU—AS a student, researcher, faculty and then a professor at the same Centre! A professor par excellence, she has several books to her credit on communication skills and theory of translation. Her areas of interest include teaching Russian as a foreign language—practical Russianlanguage, communicative Russian skills, and translation studies—theory, practice and techniques of translation,translation of newspaper, social science and business materials from Russian into English and vice-versa. For Prof Narain, writing text books from the point of view of

Indian audience, has been the greatest boon, as they are understood and relevant for the Russian community all over. Author of seven books, she has been invited as visiting scholar and to present papers to the top universities in India, the USA, Europe and Russia.

She is the recipient of Dr. Radhakrishnan Millennium National Teacher Award (2010), Education Award for Excellence (2016), Modernites Award for Excellence (2019) and Opcar Achievers Award (2022). All this has a profound impact on the language of business communication, and hence the emergence of new areas of business communication, which call for research and understanding. The textbook An Introduction to the Business World takes into account these sectors of the business world and also the financial and economic sectors of Russia and India,and provides a systematic, methodological approach towards teaching this field,” Prof Narain said. An Introduction to the Business World textbook consists of four major sections—the financial sector, the financial and economic system of Russia, official business communication in India, business letters and abbreviations in Russian and English in the appendix.