Praghna Centre for Research (Praghna) was founded in June 2021 as a not-for-profit educational institute with a singular objective – inculcate and promote scientific tempter among students and emerging scholars. Towards this objective, Praghna has entered into MoUs with think tanks and universities for conducting research methodology workshops/capsules and internship programs. Till now, 20 workshops and orientation talks have been conducted and our interns have written 32 research works that have been published online. Through these endeavours, we intend to facilitate greater understanding of the world that we live in through scientific research. Visit our website www.praghna.org to know more about us.

In yet another initiative to promote scientific research, Praghna announced two prizes in 2023. We received 07 Papers for consideration that year. In 2024, two further prizes were added. We received 13 papers and four books for consideration. 

This year, Praghna observes its 4th Anniversary on 07 June 2025. To commemorate the occasion, we are instituting SIX prizes for original works. They are:

V. Rajamanickam Prize: For research paper in political science or historical studies

Kalavathy Rajamanickam Prize: For research paper in socio-cultural studies

Group Captain Arun Bhatnagar Prize: For research paper in defense studies

Radhe Shyam Gupta Prize: For a monograph or book in Strategic and Defense Studies

KN Venkatraman Prize: For a research paper in Education and Developmental Studies

Lakshmi Venkatraman Prize: For a research paper in Women and Community Development

Each prize has three elements: 1) A cash prize of INR 2000 (Two Thousand only) for each category, 2) An E-Certificate and, 3) Publication of the research work through Electronic Journal of Social and Strategic Studies (ISSN Online: 2582-9645), subject to blind peer review.

We remain grateful to Dr Mohit Kumar Gupta and Captain Ravi Shankar & Dr Meena Ravi Shankar for instituting and sponsoring three prizes in memory of their parents.

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