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Dr.Vijaya Ramanujachari,(May 10 1947 - Aug 13 2018) an academician started her career with Seetha Lakshmi Ramaswamy College Trichy and after marriage moved to Bangalore. She started working with Sri Kumarans Childrens Home Bangalore as an Assistant Teacher taught English and Social Sciences. She was mentored by her principal Late. Meenakshi Balasubramaniam asking her to pursue B.Ed as the feedback from parents was positive. Vijaya Ramanujachari pursued her B.Ed English and Special English in 1982 from Annamalai University. Further in 1988 she joined Sudarshan Vidya Mandir as Assistant Teacher to teach English and Social Sciences. In 1990, she was encouraged by Late Rector Aswath Narayan, Managing Trustee of Sudarshan Vidya Mandir asking her to do MA English. Vijaya Ramanujachari went on with her dreams to complete MA English in 1992. In 1996, Vijaya Ramanujachari continued her dream to finish M.Phil English from Madurai Kamaraj University midst family problems and work pressure. In 1998, she enrolled for Master in Marketing Management(MMM) from Pondicherry University and completed her MMM Degree in 2001. In 2007 she went on to pursue her doctoral studies on Self Help Groups in Karnataka from The Gandhigram Rural Institute MHRD Institution and was awarded Highly Commended for her research on the topic.

She worked with SSMRV College, Visiting Professor of English(1995-1996), The Oxford Institution, Chief Placement Officer and Senior Lecturer(1996-2004), IBMR as Director of Academics(2004-2006), Mysore Maharaja Institute of Higher Education(MMIHE), Director of Academics (2006-2008). She was part of the merger between MMIHE and another startup business school GEMS B School. Further moved to Karnataka College of Management started the first batch MBA Program (2008-2010). Dr. Vijaya served Sambhram College as Adjunct Faculty International Marketing and Industrial Business(2011), and ISBM as Adjunct Faculty International Business, HR Accounting and Auditing and Rural Marketing (2012). In 2013, she travelled to Mexico City worked for Technologico De Monterrey as Professor of Innovation, and Creativity, Business Finance and Business English Cambridge Schools Program. She went to Boston visited Harvard Business School to understand the pedagogy how US Education System works. She returned back to India in 2014 with an open ticket to return and there after she retired from academics. She started her own enteprises Urban Connects Farm to support rural artisans work and women empowernment. She fell ill suddenly on May 07 2018 and thereafter there was no look back. She went to the hospital and never returned back. She suffered from Multiple Myelnoma a secondary type of blood cancer a rarest cancer which has only three stages. Unfortunately giving her life for academics and for the rural friends. She passed away on August 13, 2018 at 08.00 am IST an auspious day it was her star birthday