Dr Shikha Rajpurohit received her PhD from the School of Sanskrit and Indic Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her doctoral research focused on the text of Īśvarapratyabhijñākārikā by Utpaladeva along with his auto-commentary and two commentaries by Abhinavagupta on this text. Her work dealt with the theory of cognition and consciousness in this philosophy vis-à-vis the Buddhist philosophy. She completed both her MPhil and MA in Sanskrit from Jawaharlal Nehru University and her BA (Hons) in Sanskrit from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi.

Dr Rajpurohit’s broad research areas include Pratyabhijñā philosophy, Buddhist philosophy, Indian philosophical traditions, Sanskrit poetics and dramaturgy, Indian aesthetics and Sanskrit language and literature. Within these domains, her research aims to study the theories of cognition, creativity and consciousness. She was awarded the Junior Research Fellowship by the University Grants Commission and has authored over a dozen papers published in reputed journals and as book-chapters. Contributing to the ongoing dialogue within the philosophical community, she has presented her research at about fifteen national and international conferences.

Dr Rajpurohit has gained exposure to manuscript editing and translating while working on the project Mātṛkānidhi, funded by the Indorama Charitable Trust, New Delhi. She assisted the IGNCA in preparing a dossier on the manuscript of Sahṛdayālokalocana, which has been included in the UNESCO Memory of the World Asia-Pacific Regional Register. Currently, she is working as a reviewer for an English-Sanskrit Dictionary project with Oxford University Press. Her aim is to disseminate India’s rich philosophical and literary tradition in all the ways possible.