From Death to Immortality: The Great War of the Mahabharata

"Dr Kavita A. Sharma" is an eminent scholar and renowned educationist. She served as the president of South Asian University, New Delhi, from 2014 to 2019. Prior to this, she taught at Hindu College, University of Delhi, for nearly thirty-seven years, including a decade as its principal. From 2008 to 2014, she was the director of the India International Centre, New Delhi. Dr Sharma has been awarded the Indo-Canadian Shastri Fellowship twice (1991–1992 and 2002–2003) for her research on various aspects of the Indian diaspora. She was also a Fulbright New Century Scholar (2007–2008), focusing on the theme “Higher Education in the 21st Century: Access and Equity”. She is the author of several books, including Windmills of the Mind (2006), Queens of Mahabharata (2006), Birds, Beasts, Men, and Nature in Mahabharata (2008), Internationalization of Higher Education: An Aspect of India’s Foreign Relations (2008), Sixty Years of the University Grants Commission: Establishment, Growth and Evolution (2013), Hindu College, Delhi: A People’s Movement (2014), National University of Educational Planning and Administration: A Transformational Journey (2015), Perspectives on Indian Education (2017), and Life Is As Is: Teachings from the Mahabharata (co-authored with Indu Ramchandani, 2018). In addition to her authored works, Dr Sharma has edited several volumes and contributed chapters to numerous books. She has also published extensively in academic journals. A regular participant in seminars and conferences both in India and abroad, she speaks on a wide range of topics including higher education, gender issues, the diaspora, and the Mahabharata.

Indu Ramchandani has spent most of her working years as an editor, transcriber, compiler, and book publisher. After five years as the South Asia editorinchief at Encyclopaedia Britannica, she moved on to being a freelance editorial consultant. The passion for writing developed with the studies of the ancient scriptures and the epics. Indu Ramchandani has transcribed and published 14 handbooks in the Understanding Vedanta Lecture Series, written several articles on Vedic philosophy, and coauthored Life Is as Is: Teachings from the Mahabharata.