Biography
I am a Professor at the School of Human Ecology, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Mumbai. I was Dean of the Scholl till 2025.I was awarded the Fulbright Nehru Senior Research Fellowship, 2010-11, at the Department of Anthropology at the University of California San Diego. I have been in the field of higher education for over three decades. Before my two decades at TISS, I taught at Delhi University. In TISS, I was part of the team that set up iCALL, the psychosocial helpline that offers counselling services over telephone, email and chat. In collaboration with the Tata Memorial Center, Mumbai, I helped develop an innovative project on training patient navigators for cancer care called Kevat. I enjoy teaching and research. I am eternally curious, and enjoy trying to find out what makes people tick. My areas of research interest are many. I have written and published on issues and themes of psychology and human development.