Dr. Vandana Sharma ‘Diya’ is currently serving as Assistant Professor in
the Department of Philosophy at Zākir Ḥusain College, University of Delhi. She
also serves as an advisory member of the Censor Board, Ministry of Broadcasting
and Information. Dr. Sharma has conducted research on Kedarnath Dham under
the Central Sanskrit University, Ministry of Culture. She is a former Residential
Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, a former Post-Doctoral
Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, and a former Junior
Research Fellow of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research.
Dr. Sharma specializes in Indian philosophy, with particular expertise in
Advaita Vedānta, Śaivism, and Yoga. She has authored six books, published with
reputed publishers including Motilāl Banārasīdās, Chaukhambā, and Cambridge
Scholars, London. She has also published 28 research papers in Scopus-indexed
journals, including Elsevier and Philotheos. Her accolades include the ‘Svāmī
Prāvānanda Best Book of the Year Award 2019–20’ at the Asian-African
Philosophical Congress and received the Shri K.S. Nagar Puruskar for “Nature’s
Wisdom: Indian Philosophical Insights, 2025. She has contributed an
encyclopedia entry on H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in Paranoma of Indian
Philosophers and Thinkers. Dr. Sharma has represented India at the World
Congress of Philosophy held in Greece (2013), China (2018), and Rome (2020).
Vandana Sharma
