Mr. Bhanu Prakash Nunna has 3 years of experience in teaching and research. He is also a Mental Health Practitioner with over 10 years of experience in counselling teenagers, university students, geriatric population, and families/caregivers of the elderly. He is a Doctoral Research Fellow at O.P. Jindal Global University in the areas of Victimology and Victim Assistance. Mr. Nunna is the founding Co-director of the Bangladesh Postgraduate Course on Victimology, Victim Assistance and Criminal Justice. He is also a Resource Faculty at the prestigious Victimology Postgraduate Courses in Europe and Asia. He is a recipient of World Society of Victimology (WSV) Scholarship in 2018.

Keerthi Kishore S is interested in teaching, training, and conducting research in the area of applied psychology. He believes in using experiential learning as one of the main pedagogical tool to facilitate learning. He is actively involved in designing and conducting learning and development programmes in the area of human resource development.

Dr Samudra has completed his BCA, MBA(HRM) before completing his PhD in Public Systems from IIM Ahmedabad. Prior to joining IIMA, he worked in a large PSU for more than a decade. His research interests lie in the areas of public policy, productivity analysis, education, etc. He has published several cases, journal articles and book chapters.

“Being exposed to research level mathematics, I believe mathematics is for all people. Having taught mathematics at undergraduate level and tutored one-on-one at several levels, I believe strongly that it is not a subject to pass. It is not to merely showcase your research prowess and keep people in awe, but it has beauty in it everyone must see.

My constant endeavour is to make mathematics reachable to one and all.”

Professor Krishnappa’s teaching and research revolve around the practice of reading as an art of sensemaking. His work brings together philosophy and literature as sites of disorientation, attention, and ethical apprenticeship, with a particular focus on the writings of Wittgenstein, Roland Barthes, Karl Weick, Tolstoy, and other figures who treat thought as inseparable from form. His interests extend across Ancient Greek philosophy, Continental thought, philosophical and literary reading, and the role of philosophy within liberal arts education. In both his teaching and writing, he emphasises the formative dimensions of reading and the cultivation of critical and imaginative thinking in conditions of complexity and uncertainty.

As Director of the Centre for Ethics at RV University, he leads initiatives that foster ethical reflection, civic responsibility, and the renewal of the humanities in liberal education. Widely published in major media outlets, he writes on the future of liberal education, the practice of philosophy as a way of life, and the place of reading in contemporary times. He is currently at work on a new book, Reading Otherwise: Pedagogies of Sensemaking in Fiction and Life, which argues for the formative power of literature to train us for uncertainty, complexity, and the unfinished.

Before joining RV University, Krishnappa was a Doctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy and Literature at O.P. Jindal Global University (2015–21). His earlier academic training includes a PGDip in Strategy and Innovation from the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford (2013–15), an MSc in Defence and Strategic Studies from the University of Madras, as well as certificates in Business Management (IIM Ahmedabad, 2013–14) and Peace Research (University of Oslo, 2008).

Krishnappa has more than three decades of professional experience, with over two decades dedicated to teaching and research. He previously served as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (2004–2013), where he led large international and interdisciplinary projects. Prior to his academic career, he served in the Indian Air Force from 1986 to 2004, retiring with the rank of Group Captain (Select Grade).

Across his trajectory—from the cockpit to the seminar room—Krishnappa’s enduring concern has been with how human beings make sense of complexity. His current work, situated at the intersection of philosophy, literature, and pedagogy, explores how reading otherwise can serve as a discipline of attention, ethical imagination, and sensemaking in uncertain times.

Dr. Soundarya Iyer is an Assistant Professor at RV University, Bangalore and Associated Researcher at the French Institute of Pondicherry, India. She is interested in interdisciplinary approaches to the study of agrarian change, climate change, gender, and livelihoods in India. She was the Sir Ratan Tata Post-Doctoral Fellow 2018-19 at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. She was a post-doctoral fellow at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore in the IDRC funded climate change project on Adaptation at Scale in Semi-arid Regions (ASSAR). She is currently Principal Investigator on a collaborative project with Prof. Nitya Rao funded by the Azim Premji University Research Funding Programme – 2019 which aims to understand the sociology of the decline in female labour force participation in rural Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

Dr. Iyer defended her doctoral dissertation in 2017 from Manipal University, for which she worked at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore. Her doctoral dissertation traced the processes of rural transformation in three villages of Karnataka using mixed methods such as household surveys and semi-structured interviews.