About
My areas of interest include Literature and Religious Studies, Indian Studies and the American Gothic. Education
MA, Ph.D.
Earned qualifications from the Papal Seminary in Bengaluru in Biblical Studies and separately, in the psychology of spirituality. I have additional qualifications in Hindu theology from the Oxford Centre of Hindu Studies.
Along the way, I picked up qualifications in the behavioral sciences. Work Shared in CORE
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- Review of Immortality and the Philosophy of Death
- Review of Bihani Sarkar’s Heroic Shāktism: The Cult of Durgā in Ancient Indian Kingship
- Review of Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks: Volume 10, Journals NB31–NB36
- Review of The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman
- Review of On Psychological and Visionary Art: Notes from C G Jung’s Lecture Gérard de Nerval’s ‘Aurélia’
- Review of Backpacking with the Saints: Wilderness Hiking as Spiritual Practice
- Review of Between Levinas and Heidegger
- Review of Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, Volume 9: Journals NB26–NB30
- Review of Agamben
- Review of Cultivating Virtue: Perspectives from Philosophy, Theology, and Psychology
- Review of Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae: A Biography by Bernard McGinn
- Review of The Interior Castle: Study Edition by Teresa of Avila. translated by Kieran Kavanaugh, ocd and Otilio Rodriguez, ocd
- Review of The Self Edited by Constantine Sedikides and Steven J Spencer
- Review of Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, Volume 8: Journals NB21–NB25
- Review of The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms Edited by Roland Greene and Stephen Cushman
- Review of Chinmoy Guha’s Bridging East and West: Rabindranath Tagore and Romain Rolland Correspondence (1919–1940)
- Review of Graham Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything
- Review of The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries
- Review of Paving the Great Way: Vasubandhu’s Unifying Buddhist Philosophy
- Review of Walter Benjamin’s Illuminations with an Introduction by Hannah Arendt
- Review of Ethics and Politics in Tagore, Coetzee and Certain Scenes of Teaching by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- Living Karma: The Religious Practices of Ouyi Zhixu
- Review of Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro
- The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, and the Year That Changed Literature
- Review of Classical Philosophy: A History of Philosophy without Any Gaps, Volume 1
- Review of the Princeton Edition of Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Man
- Review of Julia Kristeva’s This Incredible Need to Believe
- Review of Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists
- Review of Digital Culture and Religion in Asia
- Review of Swami Vireswarananda: A Biography and Pictures Compiled and Edited by Swami Chaitanyananda
- Review of Rajiv Malhotra’s Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism
- Bengal Partition Stories: An Unclosed Chapter Edited by Bashabi Fraser
- Review of On Evil by Terry Eagleton
- Review of Thomas Bien’s Mindful Therapy: A Guide for Therapists and Helping Professionals
- Review of One Self by Master Nome
- Review of Evil: A Challenge to Philosophy and Theology by Paul Ricoeur
- Review of Ethics and Culture: Some Contemporary Indian Reflections Vol. 2
- Review of Alternative Standpoints: A Tribute to Kalidas Bhattacharyya
- Review of Classical and Contemporary Issues in Indian Studies: Essays in Honour of Trichur S Rukmani
- Review of Exploring Mysticism: A Methodological Essay
- Review of (the Princeton edition of) The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Prose: Volume V, 1963–1968
- Review of (Princeton edition of) The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Prose: Volume VI, 1969–1973 Ed. Edward Mendelson
- Review of Roger Scruton’s The Soul of the World
- Review of the Princeton Edition of Erasmus’s The Praise of Folly
- Review of Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience
- Evil In Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy
- Review of Interdisciplining Digital Humanities: Boundary Work in an Emerging Field
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I annotate the Bible through a Hindu hermeneutics and write online on comparative religions.
I am now involved in two book projects.
