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

Faculty members

Prof. K. V. Raju

Professor Emeritus

Ph.D., Sardar Patel University, Gujarat

Economic Advisor to the C.M., Government of Uttar Pradesh
Prof. 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
Prof. Ashwin Kumar A. P.

Dean, Academics

Ph.D., Manipal University

Former Director, Centre for Learning Futures, Ahmedabad University
Dr. Padmavathi B.S.

Deputy Director- Academics, Chanakya University

Ph.D., Bangalore University

Former Director, Centre for Educational and Social Studies (CESS)
Dr. Vinayachandra Banavathy

Director, Centre for IKS

Ph.D., Pondicherry University

Director Indica Yoga, Guest Faculty at University of Ghent, Belgium
Dr. Rajesh Aruchamy

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

Ph.D., Bharathiar University, Coimbatore

Columnist & Media Consultant
Dr. Ramakrishna Pejathaya

Associate Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Rastriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, Tirupati

Dasha Avadhani-Poet
Dr. Vinayak Rajat Bhat

Associate Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Rastriya Sanskrit Samsthana, Sringeri

Co-author of the Text book on IKS
Dr. Naveen Bhat

Associate Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Central Sanskrit University, Delhi

Author, Researcher
Dr. Ashwini B. Desai

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Tumkur University

Former Head Academics, Aarohi Research Foundation, Bengaluru
Dr. Priyanka Dwivedi

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Bangalore University

Speaker & Faculty Trainer
Dr. Charu Ratna Dubey

Assistant Professor of International Relations, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Researcher, Taipei University, Taiwan
Dr. Tilak M. Rao

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Pondicherry University

Author, Researcher
Sri Saurav Sarmah

Assistant Professor of International Relations, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Sinologist
Sri Ajay Chandra

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

M.Sc., Bangalore University

Dr. Harshith Joseph

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Tumkur University

Faculty Trainer
Sri Giridarshan M.

Assistant Professor of Economics, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

M.A., University of Mysore

Formerly with Toyota Motors
Sri Deepak Raj Pandaya

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

M.A., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Researcher at University of Hamburg
Dr. Sindhu D. M.

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Central University of Karnataka

Former Faculty, Central University of Karnataka
Shubhashri Gopalkrishna Kamalapur

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

M.S.W., KSET

Sri M.S. Chaitra

Director, Centre for Study of Cultures and Associate Professor of Practice, School of Arts, School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

M.Sc., University of Mysore

Founder, Aarohi Research Foundation
Sri Sujit Kumar Chowdhury

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

M. Phil.(Sociology), JNU, New Delhi

Former Chief Postmaster General of Bihar State
Prof. Rajendrakumar Joshi

Adjunct Faculty

Ph.D., IIT Mumbai

Faculty Trainer- Philosopher
Prof. Habil Narahari Rao

Visiting Faculty

Ph.D., Universität des Saarlandes, Germany

Former Privatdozent (Adj. Professor), Universität des Saarlandes, Germany
Dr. Sudarshan H. L.

Visiting Faculty

Ph.D.

Psychotherapist
Dr. Rema M. K.

Visiting Faculty

Ph.D.

Counsellor
Sri Shivanand Shivaling Saidapur

Teaching Assistant

M.A., Rani Channamma University, Belagavi

Former Reseach Fellow, India Studies Unit, CESS
Sri Vinay Iyer

Research Assistant

B.Sc., Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu

Sri. Heddari Ravikumar

Visiting Faculty

M.A., University of Mysore

Researcher
Sri. Keshava Chandra

Visiting Faculty

M.A.

Author and Poet
Kum. Gargi L. Shanbhag

Research Assistant

M.A., Manipal University

Author, Researcher
Sri. Soham Satish Deshmukh

Project Fellow

M.A., Azim Premji University, Bengaluru

Political Theorist

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