A. K. Shiva Kumar,is a development economist,policy advisor,and evaluator,who has over the past 40 years,taught economics,undertaken evaluations,conducted research and policy analysis,worked closely with governments,international agencies,and civil society organisations to advocate for changes in public policy and legislation. He teaches various courses at Harvard University,Indian School of Business,BITS School of Management,Young India Fellowship,S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research and Ashoka University. He is a board member of the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children,co-chair of Know in Violence in Childhood,and a member of the leadership councils of both the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and Global Women's Institute,The George Washington University,Washington DC. In addition to serving as a senior policy adviser UNICEF –India (1992-2017),he was a member of India's National Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India,constituted by the Chairperson Sonia Gandhi. The council was set up in June 2004 to oversee the implementation of India's National Common Minimum Programme.
Avinash Kamalakar Dixit is an Indian-American economist. He is the John J. F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics Emeritus at Princeton University,and has been Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics at Lingnan University,senior research fellow at Nuffield College,Oxford and Sanjaya Lall Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Green Templeton College,Oxford.
National Knowledge Commission was an Indian think-tank charged with considering possible policies that might sharpen India's comparative advantage in the knowledge-intensive service sectors. It was constituted on 13 June 2005,by the then Prime Minister of India,Manmohan Singh.
AndréBeteille,is an Indian sociologist,writer and academician. He is known for his studies of the caste system in South India. He has served with educational institutions in India such as Delhi School of Economics,North Eastern Hill University,and Ashoka University.
Upendra Baxi is a legal scholar,since 1996 professor of law in development at the University of Warwick,United Kingdom. He is presently a Research Professor of Law and Distinguished Scholar in Public Law and Jurisprudence at the Jindal Global Law School,OP Jindal Global University. He has been the vice-chancellor of University of Delhi (1990–1994),prior to which he held the position of professor of law at the same university for 23 years (1973–1996). He has also served as the vice-chancellor of the University of South Gujarat,Surat,India (1982–1985).
Rudrangshu Mukherjee is a historian and author of several history books. He was formerly the Opinions Editor for The Telegraph newspaper,Kolkata and the Chancellor for Ashoka University,where he also serves as Professor of History. He was the founding Vice-Chancellor of Ashoka when the University began in 2014 and was succeeded in 2017 by Pratap Bhanu Mehta.
Upinder Singh is an Indian historian who is Professor of History and Dean of Faculty at Ashoka University. She is the former head of the History Department at the University of Delhi. She is also the recipient of the inaugural Infosys Prize in the category of Social Sciences (History).
Mahesh Rangarajan is a researcher,author and historian with a special interest in environmental history and colonial history of British and contemporary India. He has taught Environmental Studies and History at Ashoka University and Krea University,and served as the Vice Chancellor of Krea University. He appears frequently on Indian television as a political analyst. He is also a columnist in the print media writing on wildlife conservation,political and environmental issues. In 2010,he chaired the Elephant Task Force (Gajah) of the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests. The Task Force was formed to formulate measures for the protection of elephants in India.
Sunil Khilnani is a professor of politics and history at Ashoka University,India. Previously,he was a professor of politics and the Director of the King's College London India Institute. He is a scholar of Indian history and politics best known as the author of The Idea of India (1997). He was the presenter of a BBC Radio 4 series entitled Incarnations:India in 50 Lives,which was later published as a book in 2016. He was a 2010 Berlin Prize Fellow,and he was also a recipient of the Indian government's 2005 Pravasi Bharatiya Samman award.
St. Edward's School is a premier convent school located at Milsington Estate,Shimla,Himachal Pradesh,India. It is a boys-only day school. St. Edward's has been ranked among the top schools in India. It was initially affiliated to CISCE but was changed over to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) system in 2008. Today the School is managed by Simla Chandigarh Educational Society,under the Bishop of Simla Chandigarh Diocese. The school offers education from Nursery to Class XII.
Arvind Subramanian is an Indian economist and the former Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India,having served from 16 October 2014 to 20 June 2018. Subramanian is currently a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. He previously served as Professor of Economics at Ashoka University and a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Center for Global Development.
Ashoka University is a private university located in the National Capital Region (NCR),India,focusing on liberal education in Humanities,Social Sciences,and Natural science.
Malabika Sarkar is an Indian academic,former Vice-Chancellor of Ashoka University,and a former Vice Chancellor of Presidency University,Kolkata. She was the first Dean of Faculty &Research at Ashoka and was the Principal Academic Advisor before succeeding Pratap Bhanu Mehta to become the 3rd Vice-Chancellor. She is a professor of English Literature and specializes in John Milton,with an added interest in the History of Science. Her book Cosmos and Character in Paradise Lost was published by Palgrave Macmillan in June 2012. She handed over the charge of Vice-Chancellorship of Ashoka University to Indian Astrophysicist Somak Raychaudhury on 1st January 2023. During her tenure,Sarkar made several appearances in the media,writing op-eds and giving one-on-one interviews to key publications. In particular,she took up the cause of women and batted for leadership roles for women in academia,becoming a national voice opining the same. In doing so,she helped enhance Ashoka's reputation on the national stage.
Devesh Kapur is the Director of Asia Programs and Starr Foundation Professor of South Asian Studies at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Formerly,he was the director at the Center for the Advanced Study of India,Madan Lal Sobti Associate Professor for the Study of Contemporary India,and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development. He is also a monthly contributor to Business Standard,an Indian business news daily,and an occasional contributor to Project Syndicate.
Shailendra Raj Mehta is an Indian economist who is specialized in Microeconomics theory,institution design,industrial organization,Information economics,Experimental economics,strategic management and Entrepreneurship. He was chairman of the Board of Management at Auro University. In 2017,he became the President and Director of MICA (institute),Ahmedabad.
Amita Baviskar is a sociologist and Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology &Anthropology at Ashoka University,India. Previously,she was Professor at the Sociology Unit,Institute of Economic Growth,Delhi,India. She received the 2005 Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for Distinguished Contributions to Development Studies,the 2008 VKRV Rao Prize for Social Science Research and,in 2010,was awarded the Infosys Prize for Social Sciences –Sociology in recognition of her analysis of social and environmental movements in modern India. Baviskar studies the cultural politics of environment and development in rural and urban India.
Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality:Sri Ramakrishna &Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion is a book by Ayon Maharaj on Sri Ramakrishna and the philosophy of religion. The book was published in the US and UK in 2018 in hardcover. An Indian hardcover edition was published in 2019. The book has been reviewed in professional and popular journals,and in 2021 was the focus of a fourteen-article book symposium in the International Journal of Hindu Studies.
Niraja Gopal Jayal is an Indian political scientist,who works on issues concerning citizenship,representation,and democracy. She is currently a professor at both,King's College London and the London School of Economics,in the United Kingdom,and previously taught at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi,India.
