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Everyone who has written, spoken, taught or helped shape Poorvam.

14 contributors

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Mr Nilambar Chakrabarti

Doctoral Research Scholar & Sylff Fellow, Jadavpur University / Smith College

Nilambar Chakrabarti is a doctoral research scholar in Philosophy at Jadavpur University, a Sylff Fellowship recipient, and former Research Fellow at Smith College in South Asian Studies. He regularly moderates the Poorvam Cite It! and Authors in Conversation academic symposia series.

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A Raghuramraju

Speaker, Adjunct Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati

Prof. A. Raghuramaraju is Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati. He holds a Ph.D. from IIT Kanpur and works across Indian philosophy, Continental philosophy, social and political philosophy, bioethics, feminism, and the relationship between technology and society. He is the author and editor of several significant works in contemporary Indian philosophy, including Debates in Indian Philosophy: Classical, Colonial and Contemporary, Enduring Colonialism: Classical Presences and Modern Absences in Indian Philosophy, Modern Frames and Premodern Themes in Indian Philosophy, and Calibrating Western Philosophy for India. His Debates in Indian Philosophy received the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title recognition in 2007. Prof. Raghuramaraju has also served as visiting faculty and held academic and advisory positions at several institutions in India and abroad. His work engages closely with questions of Indian intellectual traditions, modernity, colonialism, Gandhi, and the encounter between Indian and Western philosophical traditions.

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Arjun Bharadwaj

Contributing Editor & Classical Scholar, Prekshaa Journal

Arjun Bharadwaj is an author and researcher with a deep interest in classical literature, arts, and philosophy. An engineer by training, he is well-versed in Sanskrit (MA), Kannada, English, German (ZMP), and Greek. Arjun works as a contributing editor of Prekshaa and is currently studying the comparative aesthetics of classical Greek and Indian arts and literature.

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Dr Bartholomew Ryan

Research Professor of Philosophy & Musician, NOVA University of Lisbon

Bartholomew Ryan is a philosopher and musician, and holds a position as Research Professor of Philosophy at NOVA University of Lisbon in Portugal, where he is also lecturer at the Department of Philosophy. Amongst his various publications, he is the author of the philosophical biography Critical Lives: Fernando Pessoa (Reaktion 2024) and Kierkegaard’s Indirect Politics (Brill 2014). He fronts the international dream-folk band The Loafing Heroes.

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Prof Dan Zahavi

Professor of Philosophy & Director of Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen

Dan Zahavi is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen. Zahavi’s primary research area is phenomenology and philosophy of mind, and their intersection with empirical disciplines such as psychiatry, psychology, sociology, and anthropology. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages.

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Prof Jay L. Garfield

Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities & Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Smith College / University of Melbourne

Prof. Jay L. Garfield FAHA is the Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy and Buddhist Studies at Smith College, Emeritus, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. He is a renowned scholar specializing in Buddhist philosophy, cross-cultural hermeneutics, and Indian philosophy, with numerous influential publications bridging Eastern and Western philosophical traditions.

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Prof Jonardon Ganeri

Bimal K. Matilal Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto

Jonardon Ganeri is the Bimal K. Matilal Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is a philosopher whose work draws on a variety of philosophical traditions to construct new positions in the philosophy of mind, metaphysics and epistemology. He joined the Fellowship of the British Academy in 2015, and won the Infosys Prize in the Humanities. He delivered the 2024 John Locke Lectures at the University of Oxford.

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Prof Madhucchanda Sen

Professor of Philosophy, Jadavpur University

Prof. Madhucchanda Sen is a Professor of Philosophy at Jadavpur University, where she has been teaching since 2011. She taught at Rabindra Bharati University from 2001 to 2011. She was educated at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and University College London. Her major areas of research interest are Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Critical Thinking, and Epistemology. She was a Visiting Professor under ERASMUS programme at University of Bologna, Italy.

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Medhananda

Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy & Hindu Chaplain, Vedanta Society of Southern California / UCLA & USC

Swami Medhananda is a monk of the Ramakrishna Order and an academic philosopher, currently serving as Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Vedanta Society of Southern California in Hollywood. He is also the Hindu Chaplain at UCLA and the University of Southern California, and Section Editor for the International Journal of Hindu Studies (Springer).

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Prof Monima Chadha

Professor of Indian Philosophy, University of Oxford

Monima Chadha is Professor of Indian Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. Her main research interests are in the Philosophy of mind in the classical Indian and contemporary western traditions, most recently focused on the Buddhist no-self views and their implications for our concepts of subjectivity, agency, responsibility, and ethical life.

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Prof Nalini Bhushan

Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emerita in the Humanities & Professor Emerita of Philosophy, Smith College

Prof. Nalini Bhushan is Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emerita in the Humanities and Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Her research focuses on Indian philosophy, feminist philosophy, and cross-cultural philosophy. She has made significant contributions to making Indian philosophical texts accessible to contemporary audiences through rigorous translation and scholarly interpretation.

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Prof Nirmalya Narayan Chakraborty

Vice-Chancellor & Chairman, ICPR, Presidency University, Kolkata / ICPR

Nirmalya Narayan Chakraborty is presently Vice-Chancellor of Presidency University, Kolkata and Chairman, Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR), New Delhi. He was a Professor of Philosophy at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. He has been a Visiting Fellow at several Universities including Glasgow, Pune, Hyderabad, and Naples.

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Prof Ruth Vanita

Professor Emerita, University of Montana, Missoula

Ruth Vanita is a scholar, writer, and translator whose work spans Indian literary history, gender and sexuality studies, and the classical Sanskrit tradition. She is the author and editor of numerous books, including Same-Sex Love in India (co-edited with Saleem Kidwai), Love's Rite, Gender, Sex, and the City, and The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics: Debates on Gender, Varna, and Species (Oxford University Press, 2022). She co-founded the feminist magazine Manushi and taught at the University of Montana.

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Sukanya Sarbadhikary

Speaker, Presidency University

Sukanya Sarbadhikary is Professor of Sociology at Presidency University, Kolkata. She works at the interface of the anthropology of religion, anthropology of embodiment and materiality, religious studies, and philosophy. She locates the body, senses, intuition, experience, imagination, and consecration in the interstices of everyday natural and cultural lives, and strong philosophical traditions. She is also trying to merge these concerns with imminent understandings of planetary anxieties. Her first book, an ethnography of Bengal- Vaishnava aesthetic sacrality, The Place of Devotion (University of California Press), was published in 2015. She is also passionately interested in South Asian aesthetics and music, and their relations with sacred embodiment. She has thus also published on a range of devotional instruments, the communities involved in their making, playing, listening, meditating, and associated traditions of sonic metaphysics. She has published her interdisciplinary work in several journals including the Contributions to Indian Sociology, Modern Asian Studies, Religions, EPW, South Asian History and Culture, Journal of Hindu Studies, Journal of Dharma Studies, and contributed to more than ten edited collections. She is currently preparing a monograph on the overlaps of the marine and social lives of the turbinella pyrum (domestic conch).

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