Sarandha Jain

Sarandha is a young Delhi-based activist and writer, currently working with the Centre for Science and Environment. After graduating from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University, in Sociology, she worked with Goonj, a Delhi-based NGO. In 2008 she completed her Masters in Social Work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and returned to Delhi. Having a passion for sociopolitical issues, she has been writing for journals, newspapers and her blog on these subjects. An avid traveller and thinker, she also dabbles with philosophical and travel writing. This is Sarandha's first book, most of which was written when she was twenty-three. Being twenty-six now, Sarandha is still a seeker. She does not claim to have all answers or ready-made solutions to problems she discusses and questions she poses. Being the grand-daughter of a non-conformist, maverick thinker and a poetess who has researched and written on Jain scriptures, she belongs to a family with a strong grounding in Indology. Sarandha did most of her schooling from Mirambika, a free-progress, non-conventional school in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi. It is here that her first recalcitrant ideas about the universe were kindled. This unconventional familial and educational background has contributed extensively in making Sarandha a philosophical radical.