Akshara Ravishankar Parmeswaran is a Junior FWO postdoctoral researcher (2024-2027) at Ghent University. She received her PhD in the summer of 2024 at the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Her PhD dissertation, "Commentary and Canonization: The Bhagavad Gītā in Sanskrit and Hindi, 1400-1800 CE," engaged a set of interpretive texts—commentaries and translations—around the Bhagavad Gītā, a canonical text of modern (and premodern) Hinduism.
