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Born in West Bengal, Dr. Adwaita P. Ganguly was educated at the University of Ranchi, Bihar, India; and at Birkbeck College (University of London).  He received his Ph.D. from the University of London for his research on E.M. Forester’s A Passage to India (1924)- a detailed study of his treatment of India’s landscape, history, social anthropology, religion, philosophy, music and art’.  The thesis was published by Mtilal Banarsidass (Delhi), in 1990, under the title India: Mystic, Complex and Real.  His recent works include Vedanta Philosophy for the Unity of Mankind (Vikas, New Delhi, 1995); and Yuga Avatar Sri Sri Ma Anandamayee and Universal Religion (Vedantic Research Publications, Dehra Dun, 1996).  Dr. Ganguly’s quite significant lectures at public meetings and International Seminars include: ‘Vedanta and the West’, at the Festival of Indian Culture, organized by the Swaminarayan movement in London in 1984; ‘E.M. Forester’s Vision of India’ at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, London, in 1990; ‘From the Rgveda to Sri Aurobindo-the continuity of Indian Thought’ at the First Centenary Celebration of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, held at Chicago, in September, 1993; ‘Vedantic Philosophy for a new Global Order’ at the Theosophical Society in London in April 1995; ‘Explosion of the Myth of the Aryan Invasion of India’ at the London Branch of the Bharat Sevashram Sangha in July 1995; ‘Sri Sri Ma Anandamayee and Universal Religion’ at the Centenary Celebration of Sri Ma, held at Ranchi Durgabari, Ranchi, in November 1995; ‘Hindu Dharma in the Future World of East and West’ at the Convocation of Wisdom Schools for the 21^st Century organized by the Sancta Seminary.  Oklahoma, USA, at the Theosophical Society in London, in May 1997.  Dr. Ganguly is a delegate to the Parliament of the World’s Religions session at Cape Town (RSA) in December 1999.