

Anveshan: Academy for Research and Innovation
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Functions as the research and innovation wing of the Academy.
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Encourages interdisciplinary studies in arts, humanities, culture, languages, wellness, and IKS.
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Develops innovation labs, publishes scholarly works, and fosters national and international collaborations.

Dr. Supriya Sanju
Director
Spandan: Academy for Dance, Music & Indian Culture
Dr. Supriya Sanju is an accomplished academician, media professional, and artist currently serving as Adjunct Professor and Teacher In-Charge at the Department of Indian Knowledge and Languages, Gurugram University, Gurugram, Haryana. With an impressive and diverse career spanning over three decades, she has made significant contributions across the fields of media, art, and education.
Dr. Sanju brings with her 14 years of rich experience in the media industry, where she has demonstrated excellence in communication, creative production, and cultural promotion. Parallel to this, she has been a dedicated artist for the past 15 years, exploring diverse mediums of expression that reflect her deep understanding of Indian aesthetics and contemporary thought. Her creative journey seamlessly complements her 7 years of teaching experience, during which she has mentored and inspired numerous students in the domains of art, design, and Indian knowledge systems.
She is the author of one book and has published 45 research papers in reputed national and international journals, contributing extensively to interdisciplinary scholarship. Her research interests span media studies, cultural heritage, traditional knowledge systems, and visual arts.
Dr. Sanju has successfully undertaken two government-funded projects and signed two Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) that foster academic collaboration and research innovation. She maintains professional affiliations with seven distinguished institutions and serves on the editorial boards of five reputed journals, reflecting her leadership in academic and creative networks.
Her dedication and excellence have been recognized through nine prestigious international and national awards, celebrating her multifaceted contributions to academia, art, and culture.
Dr. Supriya Sanju continues to inspire through her scholarly vision, artistic creativity, and commitment to promoting India’s intellectual and cultural legacy at both national and global levels.

Dr. Rakesh Kumar Chaudhary
Director
Academy of Art
Dr. Rakesh Kumar Chaudhary is an Artist and Educator, a creative and innovative thinker with distinctive styling, visualization, and designing expertise. His art articulates the ‘inner thoughts of human beings and the soul of Indian society’. His compositions of enigmatic nature embody critical view of social, political, environmental, and cultural issues. There is always an underlying statement. The aim is to awaken consciousness of old and new values. His creative stimulus includes intensification thorough idiosyncratic creations, which can be seen changing, moving, and aware of the flow; sometimes soothing, while sometimes disturbed by the surging energy. The gentleness or abruptness of modeling and complex arrangements of several elements to form a structure, have been deliberately concocted to trigger emotional responses.
A glance at Rakesh’s work and one enters the world of mystery revealing the things from past, present world and its surroundings. The symbols are never without overtones, like echoes that move out and mingle with other sounds. There are conflicts and dilemmas; vastness of changes to undergo and already undergone; and engagements to reflect radical revisions in the world. The related and even unrelated forms are carefully modeled and seriously thought over for being effective for the purpose, before bringing them together in a composition for conveying the desired message. The variety of impressions to an eye includes physical sensation along with literary as well sentimental ideas in the dramatic projections; vibrant, exciting, contrast of forms; asymmetrical arrangements and even blended contours. The seriousness and agitated patterns; new icons projected through frontality and linearity blended with techniques, can mean a social comment, a protest, just a simple message to transform attitudes and imbibed values.
Rakesh was born in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh but has lived most of his life in Allahabad, and is presently living in Gurugram, Haryana. He earned his BFA from the University of Allahabad and MFA from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, achieving a first-class honor’s degree in Applied Art; qualified for UGC NET in 2013; and . He honours his Ph.D. Fine in Arts & Design from the Chitkara Design School, Chitkara University, Punjab, India. He has been honored with many International and National awards and appreciation from numerous prestigious organizations for his active participation and contribution in the field of art and design. His career is also focused on research and innovative topics like Bio art, Microbial art, Hybridization of Art and Technology, Typography, Color theory, and advertising campaign. He is an author of a book titled “Art era”. As a designer, he also did many appreciable works as creating graphic designer in print media and recently he adds one new mark as Editor-in-Chief of IJRAD (International Journal of Research in Art & Design and He is a member of the editorial board of Shodh Paridhi- An International Peer Reviewed Refereed Journal and Abhinavdhara - International Journal of Innovation in Indic Studies. A Member of Esteemed Artist Group “Fondazione Costanza” San Cataldo, Italy, member of an esteemed group “FIAG (Fantapia International Art Group), Korea.and The Ambassador of Vision Art Media, NewYork, America.