Dr Hemachandran Karah is an Associate Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He has published a dozen peer-reviewed essays in academic journals and books. Karah co-edits the global section of the journal Review of Disability Studies (RDS).

He is founding member and a principle investigator of The Accessibility Research Centre (ARC). As a principal investigator, Dr Karah was instrumental in securing the CSR funding for The ARC. Under the auspices of The ARC, Karah and his fellow co-investigators from IITM gather high-quality teacher tutorials on the broader theme, disabilities and disciplines. Karah and his fellow co-investigators also work on museum spaces so as to alter public imagination concerning disabled people’s need for fuller access to knowledge.

Karah is also a recipient of a fellowship grant from The Indian Foundation for Arts. With the fellowship grant, he pursued a collaborative research project on the theme of theological accessibility. Prior to this, Karah was one of the principal  investigator of a global project on Covid and mental health organised by Ohio State University. Karah is now finishing up co-authoring a companion volume on Disability Studies. This is in addition to a couple of courses on the field that he has offered on the NPTEL platform.

Karah immensely enjoys conversing with students! They aid him finetune his expertise in Disability Studies, aesthetics, literary criticism, and the art of audio description.

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