William Robert Da Silva

Willie R D Silva is a scholar par excellence in coastal Karnataka.

He has been teaching at various institutions and in various capacities such as the Academy of Missions, Department of Evangelical Theology, University of Hamburg, Germany, Lecturer in Sociology, Mangalore University, Konaje, Reader in Sociology, Goa University, Guest Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Osnabruck, Germany,  Senior Professor, Manipal Institute of Communication, Manipal University, Senior Professor, Christ University, Bangalore, a Visiting Professor, Department of Development Studies, Kannada University, Hampi, a Visiting Professor of Business Ethics at AIBA, St Aloysius College, Mangalore,  Senior Professor, Kuvempu University, Shimoga. He has been a visiting professor of Communication and Social Sciences at D J Academy of Design, Coimbatore, since 2008.

He was born in May 1945 at Parpale, in Karkala Taluk of Dakshina Kannada. His early studies were in his locality, and thereafter, he joined  St. Aloysius College High School, Mangalore. He did his University Diploma in Humanities, Philosophy, and Theology at St Joseph’s Seminary, Mangalore. He went for higher studies in Germany. He had his Master's in Philosophy and Social Sciences and a PhD from Hamburg University.

At Mangalore University, students used to refer to him as ‘Walking Encyclopaedia’. Recently, a scholar student of his referred to him as the Noam Chomsky of the region in a public forum.

*Collected from the public domain

*Re-updated on 28/08/2025