She was a Research Fellow with Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) from (2017-2021). She has a PhD in History from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She was a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (2015-2017), where she wrote a monograph that critically revisited the debate on Swami Vivekananda’s “Neo-Vedanta”. She specializes in intellectual and religious history and has worked at the interstices of history, philosophy and religious studies. Her research interests are Ramakrishna-Vivekananda studies; Vedanta; history of Hinduism; historical geography of India; history writing in colonial India; and Indian nationalist thought. She has contributed eight entries to the Hinduism section of the Springer Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, articles to journals like Annual Review of Sociology of Religion (Brill) and chapters to edited volumes published by Routledge, D K Printworld, and Aryan Books International. She has also co-edited with Arvind Gupta the volume Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: Relevance of Ancient Indian Thinking to Contemporary Strategic Reality (2020). She is presently an Assistant Professor in History at Kazi Nazrul University, West Bengal.

Contributions 
The Unique Message of Swami Vivekananda Swami Vivekananda is yugacharya, the prophet of this age, not only for India but for the whole world. His message is the same as the eternal message of India, the sanatana dharma taught by the rishis (seers) of yore, cast in a mo...

Sister Nivedita to the Women of Modern India We recently celebrated the 156th birth anniversary of Sister Nivedita on 28 October 2023. One of the important messages of this extraordinary disciple of Swami Vivekananda was for the women of future India. Though this message is nearly a century old...

Not Fair to Equate Religion with Caste: Insights from Swami Vivekananda Perhaps we are once again at that historic juncture where religion has to bear the brunt for the existence of social evils such as caste system. India was at such a juncture during the social reform movements of the late nineteenth century. We can ge...

Sister Nivedita and India’s Freedom Struggle As we recently completed 75 years of Indian independence and will also observe the 155th birth anniversary of Sister Nivedita (1867-1911) on 28 October, it is time to uncover a not-so-well-known part of the history of our freedom struggle—Sister Ni...

VIF Papers 
Sister Nivedita’s Ideas on Indian Nationhood and their Contemporary Relevance … the issue of diversity has been played up in contemporary identity politics to such an extent that it has come to threaten the very fabric of Indian nationhood ... a skewed understanding of the subject perpetuated by the fact that if modern Indi...

Book Published / Book Reviews 
Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam - Relevance of India’s Ancient Thinking to Contemporary Strategic Reality The adoption of 21st June as International Day of Yoga by the United Nations General Assembly in 2014, in response to an India-led resolution with a record high number of co-sponsors, was a landmark event. In this backdrop, it is all the more importa...

Event Reports 
Introduction to Vedic Literature: The Upanishads On 26 November, VIF organized a lecture on ‘Introduction to Vedic Literature: The Upanishads’ by Prof Shashi Prabha Kumar, Dean, Sri Sankaracharya Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. This is part of the VIF Lecture Series ‘Philosoph...

India’s Musical Footprints in Asia On 8 October, VIF organized a lecture in the ‘Understanding Indian History & Civilization’ series. Kalamandalam Shri Piyal Bhattacharya, artist, researcher and founder of Chidakash Kalalay in Kolkata, spoke on ‘India’s Musical Footprints in A...

Indian Philosophy for Beginners VIF has started a new lecture series called ‘Indian Philosophy for Beginners’. Lectures will be given on the Vedas, Upanisads and the Indian schools of philosophy, that will (a) introduce and explain these subjects lucidly to non-experts (mainly ...

Re-conceptualizing Religious History: Archaeological Findings from Itkhori, a Composite Sacred Space VIF organized a talk by Professor Rupendra Kumar Chattopadhyay (Vivekananda Chair Professor of Social Science, University of Calcutta) under the VIF Lecture Series ‘Understanding Indian History & Civilization’. The talk was titled Reconceptual...

The Shared Heritage of Yoga: Ideas and Practices from Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism On the occasion of International Day of Yoga, VIF organized a talk by Professor Christopher Key Chapple (Loyola Marymount University, USA) under the VIF Lecture Series ‘Understanding Indian History & Civilization’. The talk was titled The Shar...

Outreach 
Maya: A Conceptual History Published in in Prabuddha Bharata, Special Issue: Visions of Advaita,125(1), January 2020, pp. 266-275...

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