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Mr. Kalyan Viswanathan, received his Master’s Degree in Computer and Information Science from Ohio State University and his Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science. He has studied the texts and traditions of Hinduism from an Advaita Vedānta perspective through a 21-year association with Pujya Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Founder of the Arsha Vidya Gurukulam group of institutions and the first Convener of the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha. Served as President of the Dharma Civilization Foundation (established 2012) based in Los Angeles and is also the Founder and President of the Sanatana Dharma Foundation, Dallas, Texas (established 2007). He also teaches in the Continuing Education and Certification Division. Dr. Joydeep Bagchee, is a core doctoral faculty member at the Hindu University of America and a visiting lecturer based in Berlin, Germany. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from New School for Social Research, New York. His areas of expertise are twentieth-century Continental philosophy, German Romanticism, Nietzsche, philology, and the Western reception of Indian thought. Along with Dr. Vishwa Adluri, he is the author of The Nay Science: A History of German Indology (Oxford University Press, 2014) and Philology and Criticism: A Guide to Mahābhārata Textual Criticism (Anthem, 2018). He co-edited the volume Argument and Design: The Unity of the Mahābhārata (Brill, 2016). Dr. Bagchee has taught at Technische Universität Dresden, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich and has been a fellow at Free University, Berlin. He heads the “History and Method” concentration at the Hindu University of America. Dr. Indu Viswanathan, has a Doctorate in Education (Ed.D), from Columbia University's Teachers College. Her research focuses on the transnational consciousness of second generation Indian American teachers. She is a second-generation Hindu American raising third generation Hindu American children. In addition to having experience how Hinduism is taught in American schools as a student and now as a mother, she is also keenly aware of how the narrative about Hinduism as it relates to issues of social justice is controlled by a small group influencers who do not seem open to scholarly, liberal dissent. She is committed to adding more voices to the conversation.