Shilpa Pandit is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University. Shilpa is a Fulbright and Chevening Scholar and is deeply interested in questions on gender, youth, mental health and health per se, self and consciousness and the Indian theory of Rasa as well-being. She is a co-founder of the Dreampath Foundation, which works with youth in Karnataka (Dream Path Foundation).

1. Psychology as embedded in the cultural context 2. Who am I - Biology and Culture 3. Consciousness- The substratum, surround and interweave of Being /Self 4. Connecting with the World - Sensations and Perception 5. Knowing the World: Learning, Memory and Attention Systems 6. Self- Awareness, Cognition and Meta-cognition 7. Creativity and Decision making, Language and Communicating 8. Motivation and Emotion 9. Individual differences: Intelligence and Personality 10. Developing through the Life Span - Conception to Adolescence 11. Human Development through the Lifespan - Adolescence, Adulthood, Aging and Death 12. Being in the World - Self and relationships 13. Making Self; Social Context and Group Processes 14. Psychological Disorders 15. Sattvavajaya: Therapies for Mental Health Disorders 16. Svastha: Abiding in Self as health and well-being