Our Team

Shalini is a Managing Trustee and acting CEO at Infinity Foundation India. She is also a podcasting co-host at Hindu Parenting. She is proficient in 7 languages. Prior to joining Infinity Foundation India, she has worked for about two decades in various roles as an engineer, teacher, student of language, translator, relationship manager and project manager for various projects in diverse domains.

Prof Rakesh Mehrotra, an academician, strategist & telecom consultant, is Senior Advisor Standards with Samsung R&D Institute Bangalore India and Professor of Telecom Engineering. Earlier he served as President Innovation and Chief Corporate Regulatory Officer of Tata Teleservices Ltd, Vice President Agrani Satellite systems etc. He has 45+ years of experience at senior management positions in Government and corporate sector.

Anurag Sharma is an engineering graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. His research interests include ancient Indian history, science and Indian philosophy. At Infinity Foundation India, he is involved in various research activities.

Divya Reddy is a Trustee, Research Fellow, and Podcast Host at Infinity Foundation India. She has a background in computer science and business management. She is the editor and co-author of the ‘Ten Heads of Ravana’ book. She has also co-authored an essay titled ‘Artificial Intelligence as an Enabler of Western Universalism’ for the book ‘The Power of Future Machines.’ She has also contributed several articles to the Intellectual Kshatriya portal of Infinity Foundation.

Subhodeep Mukhopadhyay is a civilization studies researcher and a recipient of the Foundation for Indian Civilization Studies Award (2017). His writings have appeared in newspapers, online portals, edited volumes and academic journals. He is a Trustee and Research Fellow at Infinity Foundation India. Website | Google Scholar | ResearchGate

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.

R Buvaneswari is an Admin Head in Infinity Foundation India, based out of Chennai. She had worked earlier in Various UN Organisations and has more than 25 years’ experience in Administration, Operations, Finance and Budgeting.

T. N. (Therani Nadathur) Sudarshan is a Computer Scientist by profession, engaging primarily in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and related technologies. His research and practical interests in the extant civilizational encounter have been to formalise and enable the reification of the dharmic dialectic and its related semantics (both epistemologically and ontologically) not only in the socio-cultural space but also in pedagogy, both in the Sciences and Social Sciences.

Vandana V Mishra has a Masters degree in Statistics from Mumbai University and Post graduate Diploma in Computer Science. She worked as a Research Associate in the department of Electrical Engineering Dept at IIT Kanpur. At Infinity Foundation India she is involved in various academic and promotional activities including Hindi translation initiatives, volunteer relationship management and development of educational graphic novels based on the foundations work.

Pujita Krishna is a performing artist, dancer, writer, and educator. She has over twenty years of experience in arts and culture having performed widely and organised several shows, workshops and talks. She works for Infinity Foundation in a part time capacity.

Aniket Tadepalli is an intern at Infinity Foundation India, based out of Chennai. He has extensive experience in graphic design, writing, and photography from working with many organizations and now manages the content on Twitter (X) and Instagram for IFI.

Ujwwala Amrapourkar is taking care of administrative work at Infinity Foundation India, based out of Pune. She has rich experience of 15 years assisting top-level executives in various industries, including IT, Manufacturing, Healthcare, and Chemical.