Dr. Anuradha Choudry

Dr. Anuradha Choudry, is presently working as Asst. Professor at the Humanities and Social Sciences Department at IIT Kharagpur for Sanskrit and Indian Psychology. She is also the Founder of Ritambhara Yogashala and Takshashila Institute of India Studies [TIIS]. A Ph.D in Vedic Psychology from Pondicherry University, she was awarded the Erasmus Mundus Scholarship of the EU for an M.Litt in Crossways in European Humanities and a UN related Scholarship for a course on Human Rights at the Summer University of Human Rights, Geneva. Before joining IIT Kharagpur, she was a Fellow at the Development Foundation, Bangalore, as well as an adjunct Faculty at the Veda Vijnana Shodha Samsthanam, Bangalore. She also helped to establish the Centre for Indian Psychology, Jain University, Bangalore, where she organized and participated in conferences and workshops to deliberate on an alternative paradigm for psychology based on the Indic worldview. An instructor at YogaAnytime.com and a Visiting Faculty at Ghent University, Belgium, she has also been a resource person for teaching Spoken Sanskrit, Yoga Psychology and about the transformative power of mantras at the European Union of Yoga in Zinal, Switzerland (2011, 2013, 2014), Auroville International, Netherlands, the School of Practical Philosophy and Economic Sciences in UK, Ireland and Australia, Ojai Yoga Crib, Ojai, USA, and at several other Academic Institutions and organisations across the globe. Together with Dr. Vinayachandra, she has co-edited a book titled ‘Perspectives on Indian Psychology’.