ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Year                   Institution                                                 Programme & Degree
1986           Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi                     Sociology, Ph.D.
1977           Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi                     Sociology, M. Phil.
1975           Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi                     Sociology, M.A.
1973           Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi Univ.                     Psychology & Philosophy B.A.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Year                Institution                                                     Position
1980          Vishwa Yuvak Kendra, Delhi                             Research Associate
1983          Vishwa Yuvak Kendra, Delhi                             Family Councellor
1985          Indian Social Studies Trust                               Researcher & Translator
1987          Centre for Social Research, Delhi                     Research Associate
1988-90     NIRA, Japan                                                     Consultant
1991          Women’s Studies & Development                    Project Officer
                  Centre, Delhi University.
1993          CCCRW. Q.E.H., Oxford University. U.K.            Research Fellow
1994-99     Centre for the Study of Social Systems,           UGC Senior Research Scientist (Associate Professor)
                  Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.                   
1999--       Centre for the Study of Social Systems             Associate Professor
                  Jawaharlal Nehru University. Delhi

ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

-  Assisted Prof. Sudhir Kakar for the book Intimate relations, University of Chicago Press, 1989
-  Collaborated with Elisabeth Bumiller for her book MAY YOU BE A MOTHER OF HUNDRED SONS, Random House, N.Y. 1990.
-  Edited Souvenir and Theme Papers and Abstracts for XXI All India Sociological Conference (19-24 December, 1994)
-  Organized Seminars on Women’s Issues and Felicitation Seminar for Prof. R.K.Jain, January 2002.
-  Lectured for the CWC in Poona on Integrated River Basin Planning.
-  Written Articles for various newspapers: Times of India, Indian Express and Hindustan Times.

SUPERVISION

PH.D   -  20
M.Phil.  - 45

HONOURS

_    Currently the Director of Tushita Mahayana Meditation Centre, Delhi.
_    Chairperson, Punjabi Sahit Sabha, New Delhi.
_    Chairperson, Centre for Social Research, New Delhi.
_    Visiting Fellow, MSH,Paris, France.
_    Research Fellow at Oxford University

PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS

1. Oppression of Women by Women, Monograph Published by Vishwa Yuvak Kendra, 1980.
2. Co-author of Growing up in Rural India - Problems and Needs of Adolescent Girls, Radiant  Publishers, Delhi, 1989.
3.   The Womb of Mind - A Sociological Exploration of the Status-Experience of Women in Delhi, Vikas, Delhi, 1990.
4.   Women Reborn - Penguin, Delhi, 1997.
5.   The Path to Tranquillity  (Ed.)                    : Viking, Delhi 1998.
                        ”                                                          : Rider, Random House, London, 1999.
                        ”                                                          : Viking, U.S.A. 1999.
                        ”                      in Portuguese                : Gmt Editores LTDA (Sextante), Brazil, 2000.
                        ”                      in Dutch                        : BZZTOH Publishers, The Netherlands, 2000.
                        ”                      in Italian                        : RCS Libri, Rizzoli, Italy, 2000.
                        ”                      in Japanese                   : Shunju-Sha, Japan, 2001
                        ”                      in Korean                      : Munidang Publishing Co. Korea, 2000
                        ”                      C. D.                            : Simon and Schuster, U.S.A., 1999.
                        ”                      in French                      : Gange Editiors, Montpellier, 2001
                        “                      in German                     : Herder, Freiburg,Germany,2002.
                        ”                      in Italian (paper back)    : Rizzoli, Italy, 2002.
                        “                      in Polish                        : Rebis Publishing House, Poland, 2003,
                        “                      in Portuguese                : Editorial Presenca, Lisbo, Portugal,2004.
6.   The Transformed Mind  (Ed.)                                   : Viking, Delhi, 1999.
                        ”                      in Portuguese                : Nova Era, Rio de Janeiro, 2001.
                        ”                      in German                     : Verlag Herder Gmbh & Co. Germany, 2001.
                        ”                      in Hindi                         : Prabhat Prakashan, Delhi, 2001.
                        ”                      in Dutch                        : Uitgeverij BZZTOH, Amsterdam, 2002.
                        ”                      in Spanish                     : Editorial Kairos, Barcelona, 2001.
                        ”                      in English                      : Hodder and Stoughton, U.K., 2000.
                        “                      in Korean                      : Munidang, Korea, 2002.
                        “                      in Chinese                     : Oaktree Publications, Taiwan, 2002.
                        “                      in French                      : Editions Vajra Yogini, Margens, France,2003.
                        “                      in Italian                        : Oscar Mandadori, Italy, 2005.
                        “                      in Portuguese                : Editorial Presenca, Portugal, 2005.
      Live in a Better way  (Ed.)                               : Viking Campass, U.S.A. 2001
                        ”                      audio-cassette               : Simon & Schuster, U.S.A., 2001
                        ”                      (paper back)                 : Viking, U.S.A., 2002.
7. The little Book of Buddhism (Ed.)              : Penguin, Delhi, 1999
                        ”                                                          : Rider, U.K., 2000
                        ”                      in Portuguese                : Sextante, Brazil, 2001
                        “                      in Italian                        : Rizzoli, Italy, 2004.
8.   MANY WAYS TO NIRVANA (Ed.)                           : Viking, Delhi, 2004.
                        “                                                           : Hodder & Stoughton, U.K.2004.
                        “                                                           : Penguin Compass, U.S.A. 2005.
                        “                                                           : Penguin, Canada, 2005.
                        “                       In Hindi                        : Prabhat Prakashan, Delhi, 2004.
                        “                       in Korean                      : Munidang, Korea, 2004.
                        “                       in French                      : Chatelet, Paris, 2005.
                        “                       in Czech                       : Krizni Klub, Ruromedia, 2005.
                        “                       in Dutch                        : Lannoo, Netherlands, 2005.                             
9. THE PATH OF BUDDHA (ed.), Writings on Contemporary Buddhism, Penguin, Delhi, 2004.

 ARTICLES:

1. “Science, Technology, Culture and Development: Role of Women”, Ed. By A. Rehman in the book Science, Technology and Development, Wiley Eastern, Delhi. 1995.
2. “A WORLD OF WORDS” in Delhi-An Improbable City - Ed. by Khuswant Singh, Viking, Delhi, 2001
3. “OUR FATHER”, Navyug Taksaal, Gulzar Sandhu (ed.), Lok Sahit Prakashan, Amritsar, 2002.
4. “SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY: A TIBETAN BUDDHIST PERSPECTIVE”, in Science & Spirituality in Modern India, Ed. Makarand Pranjape, Samvad India Foundation in association with Centre for Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, Delhi, 2006.
5. “ROLE OF RELIGION: THE WORLD AND THE MIND”, Journal of Peace Studies, Vol. 14(1), January-March 2007.

DISTINGUISHED LECTURES:

1. “Gender & Human Rights”, W.U.S., Gwalior, April 2001.
2. “Women and Spirituality:”, GLOW, New Delhi, October 2001.
3. “The Indian Social Fabric”, Foreign Service Institute, New Delhi, 2002, 2003 & 2005.
4. “Relevance of Buddhism: Sociology of Religion in India”, JNU, New Delhi,, April 14, 2002.
5. “Spread of Mahayan Buddhism”, IIC, New Delhi, 2005.

SEMINARS/PRESENTATIONS

1. Feminine Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism presented at the XI World Congress of Sociology, Delhi, 1986
2. Discussant for a seminar on Women in Religion at University of Oxford, U.K. 1987.
3. Presented a paper at the First World Summit on Women’s Power, Montreal, Canada, 1990
4. Indian Women and Family Ideology presented at the Assembly of World Religions, San Francisco, U.S.A. 1990
5. Presented a paper at the International Conference on Tibetology in Oslo, Norway, 1992.
6. Presented a paper on Family Relationships, Education and Identity: A Case Study of an Indian Woman Writer at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, 1993 and also at the Coventry University 1993.
7. Participated in a workshop on  Education, Development and Reintegration, in Hanoi, Vietnam, 1993.
8. Presented a paper on The Concept of Body in Feminism, at a conference in Ludhiana, Punjab, 1994.
9. Presented a paper on Mother-Daughter Relationship for the AWA, American Embassy, New Delhi, 1994.
10. Went on a lecture tour to U.S.A. in 1996 (University of Berkely, Washington etc.)
11. Also participated in many other seminars and discussions on Women’s issues and especially for the Fulbright Fellows and Visitors.
12. Presented a paper on Urban Women & Spirituality at SOAS, London 1996.
13. Attended Mind & Life Conference, Dharamsala, 1992, 1997 & 2000.
14. Presented papers and organized workshops at Cortona Conferences in Italy in 1998, 2001 & 2007.
15. Lecture on ‘Gender Studies in India’ at Sorbonne University, Paris, 2002.
16. Presented a paper on Human Development and Women, SAARC Conference, Delhi and Calcutta, 2006-2007.
17. Presented the film ‘Impermanence” at the Conference on Madison Square, New York, 2005 and Venice Film Festival 2004.
18. Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights: South Asia, Sociology of South Asia, JNU, January 2006.
19. Science and Spirituality: A Tibetan Buddhism Perspective, Seminar on Science & Spirituality in India, JNU, February, 2006,
20. Sufferings of Indian Women, Conference in Naples, Italy, March,2006.
21. Cross-Cultural Marriages’ at a conference on Indian Diaspora, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea, May, 2007.
22. Violence in Marriages at NWISA Conference, University of Patiala, November, 2007.
23.  Inter-cultural Marriage  at University of S.Oregon, USA, 2008
24. ‘Women in India” and Sociological Imagination” at University of S. Oregon, USA, 2009
25. Women and Spirituality at University of Central Florida, USA, 2008 and 2009.
26. Theorising Body: Non-Essentialist Notions at Delhi University, 2010
27. Chaired and participated in a conference on History and Memory at IIAS, Shimla, 2010.
28. Youth, Leisure and Identity at World Congress of Sociology, Sweden, 2010.

Work in progress

• Currently working on my forthcoming book from Penguin on Cross-Cultural Marriages and in the summer of 2000, 2002 ,2005 and 2006, visited U.K., U.S.A. & Canada for fieldwork .
• Co-editing a felicitation volume in honour of Prof. R.K. Jain (in press- Orient Blackswan)

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