Deletion of Shivarama Varambally

Comment: Yes its true that this person is only a associate professor in the institute.But as I have said earlier tenured professors are generally kept and he is not an assistant prof.I really didn't get the argument of "the" professor.An institution generally has many prof and one head of dept.We cannot comprehensively say that the head of dept. or "the professor" is the only person capable of doing scholarly work and thus eligible for articles in WP. Some times we do |ignore all rules. Its just that this person is a part of famous institution and his research is in the commendable area that I am inclined to protect this article or else I would have given a delete
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Cited policy: Wikipedia:Ignore all rules (WP:IAR)