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Biographies, The Journal of Hindu Studies, Volume 17, Issue 3, November 2024, Pages 385–386, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhs/hiae015
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PUSHYA A. GAUTAMA (MD) is an Ayurveda physician, and a doctoral scholar at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (Consciousness Studies Programme), Bengaluru, India. She is currently working on her thesis which explores conceptions of well-being in the Caraka Saṃhitā through the lenses of consciousness, self, and life purpose. Her research interests include the philosophy of health and illness in Ayurveda, the phenomenology of healing, and body in Ayurvedic textual and practice traditions, and the interfaces between Ayurveda, and local healing traditions in South India.
SANGEETHA MENON is Professor and Head of the Consciousness Studies Programme, and Dean of the School of Humanities at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, in the Indian Institute of Science campus, Bangalore (India). The latest publication by Prof. Menon is an edited volume on AI and the new Humanism published by Springer. She works with collaborators across many countries in creating and encouraging a first-person-centred approach to understanding consciousness and cognitive capabilities that favours experiential well-being. One of her primary contributions is in presenting and engaging with the concept and experience of self from the neurobiological and philosophical point of view, and theorising a ‘self-challenged brain and brain-challenged self’.
