Faculty

Our faculty is comprised of expert scholars and educators in the fields of Yoga Studies, Indology, Religious Studies, and South Asian Studies.

Dr. Arti Dhand

Associate Professor of South Asian Religions, University of Toronto

Arti Dhand's specializations include the great Sanskrit epics, theĀ Rāmāyaį¹‡aĀ and theĀ Mahābhārata. Her 2009 bookĀ Woman as Fire, Woman as SageĀ explored ideologies of sexuality in theĀ Mahābhārata. Her current work isĀ The Twin Epics, a comparative analysis of the architecture of thought in the Sanskrit epics. She is also the host of theĀ The Mahabharata Podcast, in which she aims to recount the text in its entirety!Ā 

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