“I have now made two very worthwhile trips to MCH. Each visit was marked by much intellectual stimulus and serious discussions with the faculty and students, among whom the morale was high, the scholarly commitment intense and genuine, and the quality uniformly excellent.”

I have taught literature all my life in Indian and foreign Universities. Nowhere in my experience have philosophy and social sciences been taught in an interdisciplinary way except in this school. MCH has an excellent approach in its syllabus and its students will be unique as practitioners and teachers of literature. I could see they are trained to think creatively because of the courses they take in several branches of the Humanities.

MCH is asking its students to take as seriously as possible core questions in culture and power, across time – at present and though history – and space – in India and outside of India. It is demanding that they learn major works, both theoretical and empirical. It is inviting them to confront the problems, and promises, of disciplinary and interdisciplinary work…what more could one possibly provide one’s students?

MCH has an international reputation because of its extraordinary faculty who are committed to studying how mind, body, and society are co-constitutive, or bound together to form our ethical dispositions toward law, medicine, education, and economics.

At the Manipal Centre for Humanities, I experienced the best possible interdisciplinary humanities education available in India. Courses such as Reading the Popular, Studies in Contemporary Culture, Political and Spiritual Rhetoric, and Dalit Public Sphere and Identity introduced me to literary horizons beyond the canon. I also benefited from MCH's vibrant student life, thanks to which I participated in the theatre club and the production of the centre's literary journal, Chaicopy. Since graduating from MCH, I have gone on to pursue my interests in literature, culture, and communication through professional roles. Most recently, I was the editorial coordinator and communications assistant at Carnegie India. Prior to that, I was an editorial assistant at Routledge, Taylor & Francis.