Ankita Kushwaha is a lecturer at Sai University, Chennai, and a Ph.D. research scholar at Centre for Philosophy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She holds an M.Phil. from the University of Hyderabad and an M.A. from Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has co-instructed courses such as Critical Thinking and Ethics at Sai University. She has also taught the Ethics course for Undergraduates at the Centre for Philosophy, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Kushwaha’s area of specialization lies in social-political philosophy, with a particular focus on the relationship between religion and the state in India. Her research aims to explore how to maintain peaceful coexistence in a diverse society like India and to analyze the justifications for the approaches taken towards religion in the country.

Kushwaha has published a book review of Neera Chandhoke’s book Rethinking Pluralism, Secularism and Tolerance: Anxieties of Coexistence, published in Perspectives: UCD Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy (Vol 9, pp. 361 365). She has also presented papers, Gandhi’s Idea of Truth & its Relation to Secularism, presented in the 94th Session of the Indian Philosophical Congress, “Beyond Neutrality: State and the Role of Religion,” at the International Conference for Multidisciplinary Trends in Social Sciences and Humanities, organized by Manipal University, Jaipur, and “Beyond Coexistence: An Exploration of Peace through Justice and Fraternity” on the Indian Philosophy Network Colloquium. She has also contributed a blog article, “Traditional vs Colonial: Navigating Dichotomies of Philosophy in India,” to the Indian Philosophy Network website.