 S. N. Balagangadhara

S. N. Balagangadhara (aka Balu) was a professor at the Ghent University in Belgium, and director of the now derelict India Platform and the Research Centre Vergelijkende Cutuurwetenschap (Comparative Science of Cultures).Balagangadhara was a student of National College, Bangalore and moved to Belgium in 1977 to study philosophy at Ghent University, where he obtained his doctorate under the supervision of Etienne Vermeersch.His doctoral thesis (1991) was entitled "Comparative Science of Cultures and the Universality of Religion