Remembering Franson

  I would like to begin by expressing my gratitude to the late Prof. Franson D. Manjali, my Ph.D. supervisor and advisor throughout my time at JNU. I came to JNU with only a hazy understanding of the language. Like most others, I thought of language in its most basic sense, as a means of exchanging

rof. Franson Manjali was an amazing professor whose profound impact on our lives will forever be etched in our memories. When we first embarked on his course, we were eager but naive, unaware of the depth hidden beneath his witty remarks and subtle sarcasm. He didn't adhere to rigid structures, brea

I  never got to say goodbye to him 😞. And, I’ll never forget the day Noel and I walked into a senior class just to listen to him do his thing. The long lectures by prof Frans Manjali were the beginning of my engagement with language and sign/ structure/ philosophy/ poststructuralism/ culture etc.

Professor Manjali, for me, is like mosaic. I have known him for 10 years now, yet I feel there is so much I don't know, and so much I'd love to understand and learn about him. The parts of him I do know are disparate fragments - vivid in their distinctiveness - that have emblazoned themselves in

The body of a linguist, Prof. Manjali, gets consumed by a word called 'dead' ____________ On 14 May, my father, my teacher at home, had passed away, and exactly a month after that is today on 14 June, Prof. Franson Davis Manjali Frans Manjali , my teacher at University, passed away. I don't bother i

Professor Franson Manjali will remain forever alive through the legacy he instilled in his students throughout the decades he spent at JNU. Coming from nowhere near the field, his classes sounded complex, disconnected, and challenging for me more at the beginning and less towards the end; I made sou

I am an atheist. But, sometimes I do want to believe that there is an afterlife where I might get a chance to meet the people I adored and respected so that I can tell them how much I missed them… that I owed them a lot for everything they did for us. I feel guilty for not telling this to Sir… but h

I first met Dr. Franson Manjali when I visited JNU’s campus after my first year living in India (I’m from the US). I wanted to know if I should apply to do a Master’s in linguistics at JNU. We met over tea in the canteen, and I asked him about the department. To my surprise, he told me that the prof

Adieu Prof Frans Manjali  June 14 marks the end of an era in the study of languages in India. Franson Manjali is a significant figure in my academic growth. He is a person who I feared, respected and loved. His contributions to linguistics and language studies are immense. I am not the right per

Prof.Franson Manjali is among the few Professors at JNU who treats everyone equally in a classroom. I was not new to the linguistics field when I joined my Master's back in 2013. However, his courses were something totally new to me. It was because of his courses, I got my first ever experience to d

I was privileged to be Prof. Manjali’s student for four years of my M.A. and M.Phil life at JNU. His perspective on Linguistics was so fresh and unique for me that I never missed taking his courses. I must acknowledge that I was too young to understand the real meaning of his teachings about the phi

Where do I even begin? My first glimpse of Manjali Sir was in 2013 when I saw a person with white hair pulled back in a ponytail, a woolen cap that had a style of its own, a brown coloured tweed coat, a briefcase shaped bag in hand, a very specific walking style, a gaze that had a purpose walk into