Sundar Sarukkai

Sundar Sarukkai has held different academic positions teaching philosophy, and is the founder of Barefoot Philosophers, an initiative to take philosophy to children and the public. He is the author of Translating the World: Science and Language; Philosophy of Symmetry; Indian Philosophy and Philosophy of Science; What is Science?; JRD Tata and the Ethics of Philanthropy, and The Social Life of Democracy. He has co-authored two books with Gopal Guru: The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory, and Experience, Caste and the Everyday Social. His book Philosophy for Children: Thinking, Reading, Writing has been widely translated. He has also authored critically acclaimed novels, Following a Prayer (2023) and Water Days (2025). He is the Series Editor of Routledge's Science and Technology Studies, as well as the Co-Chief Editor of the Springer Handbook of Logical Thought in India. His most recent book is a unified and humanistic introduction to philosophical thinking titled Homo Philosophicus: Discovering the Spirit of Philosophy in Everyday Life (2026).