Preserving worlds through words.
Saumya Sirothia
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi, India
Saumya Sirothia is a Doctoral Researcher in Philosophy at the University of Delhi. A gold medalist in Philosophy from Hindu College, University of Delhi, and an ICSSR Doctoral Fellow, her research critically engages feminist psychoanalysis and the comprehensive system of Indian Tantra, with a rigorous focus on its metaphysics, epistemology, and embodied practices as they illuminate the dynamics of the psyche. By situating Tantra within feminist psychoanalysis and continental metaphysics, she explores its potential to disrupt and reconfigure entrenched binaries such as body/spirit, immanence/transcendence, and material/divine. Her inquiry foregrounds indigenous epistemologies and ritual modalities to reimagine feminine subjectivity and transcendental experience beyond Western paradigms, advancing a pluriversal metaphysics attentive to corporeality, ecology, and spiritual empowerment.
Her project is committed to fostering a sustained and rigorous dialogue between Euro-continental philosophy and classical as well as contemporary Indian traditions. Her broader academic interests include feminist metaphysics, Indian philosophy, Tantric traditions, feminist psychology, social and political philosophy, decolonial thought, and comparative philosophy. She envisions situating Indian philosophy—especially its indigenous knowledge systems—at the heart of global philosophical exchange, foregrounding their capacity to reorient prevailing intellectual paradigms.
You can connect with her at saumyasirothia.academia@gmail.com
