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Dr. Manoranjan Ghosh

Gayatri Mendanha

Assistant Professor

Philosophy & Literature

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Bio

Gayatri Mendanha is an Assistant Professor at the Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts, Pune, where she has been teaching courses in literature, philosophy and creative writing since 2014. She has previously taught at FLAME University and at the Pontifical Athenaeum Jnana Deepa in Pune. She has guest lectured at DePaul University in Chicago. She has collaborated with international faculty to co-design and teach a course as part of DePaul University's Global Learning Experience (GLE). She has been a member of the Board of Studies for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Symbiosis and chairs its subcommittee for Philosophy.

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Publications

  1. Mendanha, G., ‘Buddhist and Rational Insights: Ethical Reflections for a Polarised world.’ In Pandikattu, K. (Ed), Applied Ethics and Rationality. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, vol 74. Springer (2025)
  2. Mendanha, G., ‘Agentless Agency: Buddhist Perspectives on Ethical World Engagement.’ In Pandikattu, K. (Ed), Ethical Leadership and Sustainable Practices, XLRI-Xavier School of Management and Christian World Imprints (2025)
  3. Deshpande, S.S. and Sen, S. and Mendanha, G. et. al, ‘Curriculum and Community with Research, Action and Service (CCBALwRAS), a Pedagogical Shift for Social Change’ Higher Education for the Future (2023)
  4. Mendanha, G., ‘Rending the Veil: Representations of Emptiness’, Philosophical Traditions of the World (2023)
  5. Banerjee, S., Mendanha, G., and Dutta, A. ‘A Pilgrimage to Poetry: Reading Jejuri as a Case of Inter-systemic Literary Reception’, The World of the Orient (2023)
  6. Deshpande, S.S. and Sen, S. and Mendanha, G. et. al, ‘Curriculum and Community – the 2cs for Community-Based Academic Learning with Research, Action and Service (Cbalwras): A Case Study from India’ OIDA International Journal of Sustainable Development (2020)
  7. Banerjee S., Mendanha G., Dutta A., ‘Satire and Blake: Image, Symbol and Anti-Text’, In Pandikattu, K. (Ed), Fully Human and Fully Alive, Essays on Being Human Today (2020)
  8. Mendanha G., Dutta A., 'Alternative Interpretations of the Ramayana', In Arackal, Francis (Ed.), Indian Hermeneutics of Suspicion (2018)
  9. Dutta A., Mendanha G., 'The New Pope: Analysing the Shift in the Indian Media's Coverage of the Papacy', In Pandikattu, K. (Ed), Pope Francis: His Impact on and Relevance for the Church & Society (2018)
  10. Mendanha G., ‘Hannah Arendt: The Political Function of Thinking’, In Pereira, Dolreich (Ed), Becoming a Nation: Processes and Prospects (2017)
  11. Mendanha G., ‘An Indian Worldview: Secularism in Plurality’, Jnanadeepa Journal of Religious Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1-2 (2016)
  12. Mendanha G., ‘In Search of Woman: Re-making Ourselves’, In Irudayadason, Nishant (Ed), Philosophizing the Body (2017)
  13. Mendanha G., ‘The Individual and the Collective’, In Pardeshi, R. G., Sreedharan, C., Kaleidoscope (2014)
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Education

  • UGC NET in Philosophy - June, 2012
  • M.A. in Philosophy - Indira Gandhi National Open University - February, 2013
  • M.A. in English - Fergusson College, Pune - April, 2010
  • B.A. in Philosophy - Pontifical Athenaeum, Jnana Deepa, Institute of Philosophy and Theology – March, 2012
  • B.A. in English - St Mira’s College for Girls, Pune – March, 2008
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Research Interests

  • She has worked on research projects, presented papers and published in the areas of literary studies, philosophy and religion. Her current research explores resonances in the poetry and praxis of Mahāmudrā and Kabīrian traditions.
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Awards & Fellowships

  • Symbiosis Hall of Fame Award for Excellence in Teaching
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Courses Taught

  • Modern Indian Thinkers
  • Women Philosophers
  • Literature and Religion
  • Writing Across Genre: Freeing Creativity
  • English Romanticism
  • Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature
  • Understanding Modern Theatre: In Theory, Performance and Practice
  • Modern Drama from Around the World
  • Postmodernism: Literary and Philosophical Perspectives

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