Manogna Sastry is currently the team Leader, Research, at Infinity Foundation India
and a Master of Science from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics with a strong
background in theoretical physics and mathematics. Her research spans
astrophysics, Indology focused on chronology and desacralization, civilizational
studies, consciousness studies focused on Sri Aurobindo, sustainability, and
education. She brings scientific rigor to analyses of civilizational studies and
rethinking of historical constructs from non-dominant viewpoints. Her work has been
published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at conferences. She is the co-
author of The Battle for Consciousness Theory: A Response to Ken Wilber’s
Appropriation of Sri Aurobindo’s Work and Other Indian Thought and the co-editor
of The Power of Future Machines: Essays on Artificial Intelligence. Manogna has
authored three essays in The Ten Heads of Ravana, edited and took overall
ownership of the book project Sanskrit Non Translatables. Manogna is a passionate
sustainability practitioner, and in her previous role, she focused on pedagogies of
learning and inquiry.
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