Balaganapathi Devarakonda

Balaganapathi Devarakonda is a Professor of Philosophy at Delhi University, Delhi, India, and the Founder-Director of the Philosophical Practitioners Association of India (PPAI). He was the Indian Council of Cultural Relations' Chair of Indology and Gandhian Studies at the University of West Indies, Jamaica (2022-24). Prof. Bala is a Certified Philosophical Counselor by the American Philosophy Practitioners Association (APPA) in New York. His numerous publications span the areas of the historiography of Indian Philosophy, Philosophical Practices, Peace Studies, Early Buddhism, AI and Society, and the Study of Classical Indian texts, with a specific focus on self and consciousness.