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Dr. Kavita A. Sharma – Former President, South Asian University New Delhi

My Academic Credentials:

  • Ph.D in English, University of Delhi, Delhi, Byron’s Plays: A Reassessment – 1978
  • M.A in English, University of Delhi, Delhi -1971
  • LL.M from University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada-1984
  • LL.B. from Delhi University-1981
  • B.A. (H) English, Hindu College, University of Delhi, Delhi -1969

My Assignments:

  • President, South Asian University, New Delhi, November, 2014-2019,
  • Director, India International Centre, New Delhi since August 2008-October 2014
  • Principal, Hindu College, University of Delhi, Delhi, from January 1998 to July 2008
  • Teaching in Hindu College since July 1971-July 1978
  • Honorary visiting Lecturer at Tokyo Women’s Christian College,1974-75.
  • Honorary visiting Lecturer at University of Indonesia, 1977-78.

Fellowships:

  • Awarded the Fulbright fellowship New Century Scholar for the year 2007-08 program for research on “Higher Education in the 21st Century: Access and Equity” by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
  • Awarded fellowship by Shastri Indo Canadian Institute for Faculty Research Programme at Ottawa, Academic year 2002-2003.
  • Awarded Faculty Enrichment Fellowship by the Shastri Indo Canadian Institute at Vancouver, Academic year 1991-92.
  • Conferred the “Indira Gandhi Sadbhavana Award” by the National Integration and Economic Council on the occasion of the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Late Smt.Indira Gandhi i.e. 19.11.2005

Professional Organizations to which I belong:

  • Life member of the Indian Association of Canadian Studies
  • Life member of the Indian Society for Commonwealth Studies
  • Life members of Indian Law Institute.
  • Life member of International Comparative Literature Association , USA
  • Founder President of Parents’ Forum for Meaningful education
  • Life Member of Indian History Congress

My Books

  • Life is As Is: Teachings from The Mahabharata, Wisdom Tree, New Delhi  2018
  • Perspectives on Indian Education, Gyan Publishing House, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi, 2017.
  • Selections from Vyasa’s Mahabharata: The Dicing and The Sequel to Dicing The Temptation of Karna, Doaba Publications, NaiSarak, Delhi , 2015.
  • National University of Educational Planning and Administration A Transformational Journey, National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi, 2015.
  • Hindu College : A People’s Movement by Kavita A Sharma and WD Mathur. New Delhi: Niyogi Books, 2014
  • Sixty years of the University Grants Commission: Establishment, growth and evolution by Kavita A Sharma. New Delhi: University Grants Commission, 2013
  • Internationalization of Higher Education: An Aspect of India’s Foreign Relations, Gyan Publishing House, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi, 2008.
  • Birds, Beasts, Men and Nature, TransEdit Communications, SV-II-08 TF, Eldeco Utopia, Sector 93-A, Noida Expressway, Noida-2008.
  • The Windmills of the Mind, Rupa & Co, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi, 2006.
  • The Queens of Mahabharata, Rupa & Co., Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi, 2006.
  • Critiquing Nationalism, Transnationalism and Indian Diaspora Dr. Kavita A. Sharma, Dr.Adesh Pal, Dr. Tapas Chakrabarti, ed. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2006.
  • Contextualizing Nationalism, Transnationalism and Indian Diaspora, Dr. Kavita A. Sharma, Dr.Adesh Pal, Dr. Tapas Chakrabarti, ed., New Delhi :Creative Books, 2006.
  • Interpreting Indian Diaspora Experience, Dr. Kavita A.Sharma, Dr.Adesh Pal, Dr. Tapas Chakrabarti, ed., New Delhi: Creative Books, 2004
  • Indian Diaspora: Theorizing And Critiquing, Dr. Kavita A.Sharma, Dr.Adesh Pal, Dr. Tapas Chakrabarti, ed. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2004
  • 50 Years of University Grants Commission, December, 2003, University Grants Commission, Govt. of India, New Delhi
  • Introduction to The Dicing and The Sequel to Dicing, Doaba Publications, 4497/14, Guru Nanak Market, NaiSarak, Delhi, 2001.
  • The Ongoing Journey: Indian Migration to Canada, New Delhi:Creative Books, 1997.
  • Byron’s Plays : A Reassessment, University at Salzburg, Austria 1981.

Part of the Edited Volumes:

  • “Mahabharata Through the Eyes of Women”, IN: Women’s Studies in India: Contours of Change, edited by Malashri Lal and Sukrita Pal Kumar. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 2002. Reprinted by Women in Dharmasastras: A Phenomenal and Critical Analysis, Chandrakala Padia, Rawat Publications, 2009.
  • “The Effective State of Our Being” Karma Yoga in Tilak, Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo” IN: Studies in Comparative Literature: Theory, Culture and Space, edited Jancy James, Chandra Mohan, Subha Chakraborty Das Gupta, Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2007.
  • “Limping Marriages and Holidays Wives” IN: Critiquing, Nationalism, Transnationalism, and Indian Diaspora, edited by . Kavita A Sharma, Adesh Pal and Tapas Chakrabarti New Delhi: Creative Books, 2006.
  • “Krishna Dvaipayana’s Veda of Life” IN: Indian Knowledge Systems, Vol. II, edited by Kapil Kapoor and Avadhesh Kumar Singh. Shimla and New Delhi: Indian Institute of Advanced Study and D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd. 2005.
  • “Ethics in Mahabharata”IN: Applied Philosophy, edited by Raghwendra Pratap Singh. New Delhi :Om Publications, 2003
  • “Resource Mobilisation for Higher Education in India and Canada”, IN: India and Canada: Past, Present and Future, edited by Mishra Anil Dutta and Govind Prasad. New Delhi: Mittal Publications, 2003.
  • · “Psychotherapy and the Buddhist Mandala”, IN: Signification in Language and Culture, edited by Harjeet Singh Gill. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 2002.
  • “Exploring the Icons: Sita and Radha”, IN: Feminism, Tradition and Modernity edited by Chandrakala Padia. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 2002.
  • “Sisterhood of Silence”, IN: Feminist Space: Cultural Readings from India and Canada, edited by Malashri Lal. New Delhi: Allied Publishers 1997.
  • “The Fall of Hyperion: Suffering and Creativity,” IN: John Keats’ Poetry and Poetics, edited by R.S.Pathak. New Delhi: Creative Books 1997.
  • “Indo-Canadian Women Writers: Double Alienation” IN: Intersexions: Issues of Race and Gender in Canadian Women’s in Writings, edited by CoomiS.Vevaina and Barbara Godard. New Delhi, Creative Books – 1996
  • “The Immigrant Indo-Canadian Women: An Interdisciplinary View”, IN: Perspectives on Women: Canada and India, edited by Aparna Basu. New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 1995
  • “Canadian Federalism: Regional Aspirations and national Identity”, IN: Regionalism and National Identity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by M.P.Singh and Chandra Mohan.Delhi: Pragati Publications, 1994.
  • “The Cenci: Fractured Images of Self-identity” IN: P.B. Shelley: An Anthology of Recent Criticism, edited by N.P.Singh, Delhi: Pencraft International, 1993.

Published in Journals:

  • “Women Ascetics in Mahabharata,” Sumangali, A Journal of Gender and Heritage, Centre for Women’s Studies, Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha,, New Delhi, 2011.
  • “From Dejection to Action: The Transformation of Arjuna and Yudhishthira, “Sutra” Guragon: Shruti Foundation, 1, January 2008.
  • “Legislative Provisions and Popular Perceptions Linguistic Minorities in Canada and India,” Indian Journal of Canadian Studies, 4, 1995.
  • “The New Immigration Act: Impact on Indian Immigration”, Indian Journal of Canadian Studies, 2, 1993.
  • Non -Resident Indians; Illusion and Reality”, “International Industries Annual, 1989.
  • “Case for New Foreign Investment Statue,” Foreign Trade Review, April – June, 1987.
  • “Modern Indonesian Theatre,” Journal of the Sangeet Natak Academy, 51, January – March 1979.
  • “The Perennial Appeal of Wayang,” Journal of the Sangeet Natak Academy. Guest Editor, Special Issue on Foreign Providers in Indian Higher Education System, University News, A Weekly Journal of Higher Education, Association of Indian Universities, Vol. 48 No. 37 September 13-19-2010.

Seminar, Conferences and Discussions:

  • ” The Art and the Artist: Web of Life in Mandra” National Seminar on Dr. S. L. Bhyrappa’s work in January 2012.
  • “The Multiple Loci of Evil and Individual Responsibility in Mahabharata” Sahitya Akademi Seminar “The Idea of the Demonic in the Indian Tradition” Mumbai September 2011.
  • “Legitimacy, sexuality and Pursuit of Power in Parva” at a Sahitya Akademi Seminar Kurus Our Contemporaries; The Relevance of the Mahabharata held at Dharamshala, August 2011.
  • Ethical Dilemmas in Mahabharat : at Jaya Utsav Symposium on the Living Traditions of Mahabharata, 10-16 February 2011, IGNCA
  • “Knowing through Dreams; the War of Mahabharata,” at th Sahitya Akademi Seminar on Dreamcatchers; Literature, Creativity and Analysis at Udaipur, December 2010.
  • “The Speaking Forests and the Cosmic Order in Mahabharata” at Sahitya Akademi Seminar “Imagined World: Fantasy, Science Fiction and other forms of the Marvellous in Indian Literature held at Goa, March 2010.
  • On “Affirmative Action – the Caste and Class Conflicts” at the University of the Western Cape Nov. 2008. Article published in : Equity and Education in India : Policy, Issues and Challenges, Edited by D. Parimala, Kanishka, 2010
  • “Religious Minorities and Affirmative Action” University of Pittsburgh April 2009.
  • “Education and Power” University of Cincinnati April 2009.
  • “Equity in Higher Education: Widening the Concept of Access in India” at the Beijing Normal University in October 2008.
  • “Access and Equity in Higher Education” at the Graduate School of Business, University of KwaZulu Natal in November 2008 and at University of Ghana in December 2008.
  • “The Politics of Mandal Implementation of Reservation Policy” in the Annual Meeting Programme of the American Educational Research Association, Washington March 24, 2008.
  • “Efficacy of Quotas in Indian Model of Equity and Possible Alternatives” Durban University of Technology in November 2008 University of Western Cape,Nov. 2008

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