School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Welcome to the School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

You will find here a very refreshing and a very deep engagement with society, culture, literature, art and technology. The humanities and the social sciences are emerging as an integrative force in the modern world and the modern workplace. Technology firms are looking for arts graduates to build human-centred design, institutions are looking for chroniclers and historians, governments are looking for policy analysts, the social sector is looking for impactful solutions, and the media is looking for people who can build crucial perspectives on complex issues. Even while opening up to the future, we are looking into the founts of knowledge from our pasts that can be made to work for our contemporary concerns and contexts. Contemporary arts graduates occupy a special niche: they know their history, economic theory, and literary criticism, but are also adept at technology and data analysis and visualisation. They can interpret complex messages coded in multiple mediums: verbal, visual, oral, numerical and many more. At the School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences in Chanakya, we are sure you will discover an emerging world of possibilities for the Arts.

Programmes

Advisory Committee

Prof. John Robert Clammer

Prof. Biswajit Das 

Faculty members

Rakshit Kweera

Assistant Professor, School of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., University of Hyderabad

Varsha Gupta

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

(Ph.D.) Tumkur University

Neethu S Kumar 

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D.,(pursuing), Christ University, Bangalore

Shilpa. R 

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences  

Ph.D., Bangalore University

Basavaraj Kumasi

Assistant Professor, School of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Kuvempu University, Shivamogga

Sudeshna Mukherjee

Associate Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Chari Kanakavalli Santhanam

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

(Ph.D.), University of Mumbai,

Shruti Kanitkar

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., IIT Bombay

Arjun Bharadwaj

Visiting Faculty, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Tukaram Badiger

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Central University of Karnataka

NFSC Awardee
Sritha Sandon

Associate Professor

Ph.D., Martin Luther Christian University, Shillong.

Sangeeta Ramesh

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D.

Aarti Nagpal Mehta

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., University of Hyderabad.

Isha Sharma 

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

M.A., Centre for Development Studies, JNU, Thiruvananthapuram

Renjith Raj

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., BITS Pilani

Swaraj Kumar Dey

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., in economics from IIM Kozhikode

Paul A. Barresi

Visiting Faculty, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Boston University

Professor, Southern New Hampshire University (U.S.A.)
Shubhashri Gopalkrishna Kamalapur

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

M.S.W., KSET

Habil Narahari Rao

Visiting Faculty, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Universität des Saarlandes, Germany

Former Privatdozent (Adj. Professor), Universität des Saarlandes, Germany
Sindhu D. M.

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Central University of Karnataka

Naveen Bhat

Associate Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Central Sanskrit University, Delhi

Author, Researcher
Deepak Raj Pandaya

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

M.A., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

H. S. Ashok

Professor of Psychology, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Bangalore University

Honorary Professor at Centre of Education Social Sciences
Sandeep Nair

Professor & Dean, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

M.A. In Economics and PhD in Management

Member, State Advisory Committee, RTE GoK.
Dr. Vinayachandra Banavathy

Consultant, Strategic Initiatives

Ph.D., Pondicherry University

Director Indica Yoga, Guest Faculty at University of Ghent, Belgium
Ramakrishna Pejathaya

Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Director, Centre for IKS

Ph.D., National Sanskrit University, Tirupati

Dasha Avadhani-Poet
Rajesh Aruchamy

Associate Professor, School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Bharathiar University, Coimbatore

Saurav Sarmah

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Charu Ratna Dubey

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Researcher, Taipei University, Taiwan
Ajay Chandra

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

M.Sc., Bangalore University

Rajendrakumar Joshi

Adjunct Faculty, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., IIT Mumbai

Faculty Trainer- Philosopher
Dr. Padmavathi B.S.

Deputy Director- Academics, Chanakya University

Ph.D., Bangalore University

Former Director, Centre for Educational and Social Studies (CESS)
Ashwin Kumar A. P.

Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Dean, Academic Affairs, Chanakya University, Bangalore

Ph.D., Manipal University

Former Director, Centre for Learning Futures, Ahmedabad University
Meena Nair

Adjunct Faculty, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., JNU, New Delhi

Research Trainer
Prof. K. V. Raju

Professor Emeritus

Ph.D., Sardar Patel University, Gujarat

Member, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister
Priyanka Dwivedi

Associate Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Bangalore University

Speaker & Faculty Trainer
Heddari Ravikumar

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

M.A., University of Mysore

Keshava Chandra

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

M.A.

Author and Poet

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Celebrating a Landmark Achievement
February 7th, 2026
One-Day Faculty Development Program (FDP) for Economics teachers titled “Redefining Economics Education” on 7th February 2026 (Saturday) at the Chanakya University Global Campus. 
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Redefining Economics Education
February 3rd, 2026
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