Abhinavagupta (fl. c. 975 - 1025) was one of India's great literary critics and philosophers. He was born in Kashmir and he wrote on Shaivism, aesthetics, music, and a variety of other subjects. His two famous commentaries on poetry, drama, and dance, the Locana on the Dhvanyaloka and the Abhinavabharati on the Natyasastra engage with almost every important aspect of Indian aesthetics. In their book Santarasa (published by Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona, …

Frits Staal (born 1930 in the Netherlands) is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and South & Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Staal studied mathematics, physics and philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, and continued with Indian philosophy and Sanskrit at Madras and Banaras. Staal was Professor of General and Comparative Philosophy in Amsterdam, 1962-67.

Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya (November 19, 1918 - May 8, 1993) was an eminent Bengali Marxist philosopher from India. He made an extensive contribution to the exploration of the materialist current in ancient Indian Philosophy. His most outstanding work in this regard was the compilation and exposition of the ancient philosophy of Lokayata liberating it from distortions that it faced in the hands if its opponents.

Kanada (also transliterated as Kanad and in other ways; Sanskrit कणाद) was a Hindu sage who founded the philosophical school of Vaisheshika. He is considered as the father of Atom theory.He talked of Dvyanuka(biatomic molecule) and tryanuka (triatomic molecule) He probably lived around 600 BCE according to some accounts. It is believed that he was born in Prabhas Kshetra (near Dwaraka) in Gujarat, India.

Dr. Ganganath Jha (25 December 1872) was an eminent scholar of Sanskrit, Indian Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy and Pundit of Nyaya-Shastra.

Vishal Agarwal (b. 1970) is an Indian-American author. He holds Masters degrees in Materials Engineering and Business Administration, but writes on Indian philosophy, history and contemporary Indian society. He has criticized the Aryan Invasion Theory and Marxist historiography. He also gives talks and presentations on Hinduism and ancient India in High Schools, Colleges, old age homes, etc., upon invitation. He has been interviewed by the Minnesota Star, …

Seongcheol is the dharma name of a Korean Seon (Hangul: 선, Hanja: 禪) Master (Zen Master). He was a key figure in modern Korean Buddhism, being responsible for significant changes to it from the 1950s to 1990s. Seongcheol Seon Master was widely recognized in Korea as having been a living Buddha, due to his extremely ascetic lifestyle, the duration and manner of his meditation training, his central role in reforming Korean Buddhism in the post-World War II era, …

Vyasatirtha, also called Vyasaraja or Vyasaraayaru, was a eminent Haridasa. He was born in Bannur in the Mysore District in what is now the modern Karnataka state. He was one of the foremost dialecticians in the history of Indian philosophy. He belonged to the Dvaita school of Madhvacharya. He, along with Jayatirtha, helped systematize Dvaita into an established school of Vedic thought.

Sri Vallabha Acharya (1479 - 1531) was a devotional philosopher, who founded the Pushti sect in India, and the philosophy of Shuddha advaita (Pure Non-dualism). He is regarded as an acharya and guru within the Vaishnava traditions. Within Indian Philosophy he is known as the writer of sixteen 'stotras' (tracts) and produced several commentaries on the Bhagavata Purana, which describes the many lilas (pastimes) of the avatar, Krishna.

Keith Yandell is a Philosopher of Religion and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Yandell earned his Ph.D. from Ohio State University. He is currently a full professor in the Philosophy Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as a Professor in South Asian Studies. His fields of expertise include: History of Modern Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, Indian Philosophy. He is the author of several important works, …

Jayarasi Bhatta (or Jayaraasi Bhatta, fl. 7th c.) was an Indian philosopher who belonged to the Carvaka School (also known as the Lokayata or Materialist school). His notable work, the "Tattvopaplavasimha" ("The Lion that Devours All Categories"/"The Upsetting of All Principles") is the only extant authentic text from that school.

Dr. Sukumar Azhikode (b. May 26, 1926 Azhikode, Kerala, India) is a teacher, critic and orator, acknowledged for his contributions to Malayalam literary criticism and insights on Indian philosophy.

Ernst Waldschmidt was a German orientalist and Indologist. He taught at Berlin University since 1936. He was a specialist on Indian philosophy, and archaeology of India and Central Asia.

Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn was an English-Dutch spiritualist, theosophist and scholar. Born in London to a feminist/social activist mother and engineer father, Olga studied history of art in Zürich and in 1909 married musician and conductor Iwan Fröbe (he died a few years later in a plane crash). At the outbreak of World War I she relocated from Berlin to Zurich, where she had a literary salon known as the Table Ronde. In 1920 she moved to Casa Gabriella in Ascona, …

Mowni was the pen name of Tamil fiction writer S. Mani Iyer (1907- 1985). Born at Semmangudi, Mowni, is one of the rare writers of Tamil fiction. He had his high school education in Kumbakonam and lived there for fourteen years, since his marriage. Then he moved to Chidhambaram permanently to look after his family properties. Mowni had a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, but he did not take up any job.

Babrius was the author of a collection of fables written in Greek. Practically nothing is known of him. He is supposed to have been a Roman, whose gentile name was possibly Valerius, living in the East, probably in Syria, where the fables seem first to have gained popularity. The address to "a son of King Alexander" has caused much speculation, with the result that dates varying between the 3rd century BC and the 3rd century AD have been assigned to Babrius.