Ananta Kumar Giri is the Founding Honorary Executive Trustee of Vishwaneedam Centre for Asian Blossoming, Puducherry and Chennai and a former professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India. He has taught and done research in many universities in India and abroad. He has an abiding interest in social movements and cultural change; criticism, creativity, and contemporary dialectics of transformation; theories of self, culture, and society; and creative streams in education, philosophy, and literature. Professor Giri has written, edited, co-edited, and translated more than six dozen books in Odia and English, including Global Transformations: Postmodernity and Beyond (1998), Knowledge and Human Liberation: Towards Planetary Realizations (2013), Bahudhara Barnabiva (Splendrous Beauty of the Plural, 2021), The Calling of Global Responsibility: New Initiatives in Justice, Dialogues and Planetary Realizations (2023), Rethinking Satyagraha: Truth, Travel and Translation (Editor, 2025), Cultivating Gardens of God: A Paradigm Shift in Faith (Editor, 2025), Contemporary Contributions to Critiques of Political Economy (Editor, Routledge, 2024), Social Healing (2023), Cultivating Integral Development (2023), Corporate Spiritual Responsibility (Co-Editor, 2026) and Quest for Planetary Well-Being: Essays in Honor of MV Nadkarni (Co-Editor, 2026).