Devika is a Presidential Scholar and Ph.D. Candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She explores Indian philosophies of education, indigenous and anti-colonial traditions, and the dynamics of epistemic resistance and extremism. Blending philosophy and anthropology, her dissertation follows the afterlives of 20th-century alternative education movements in India, asking how visions that challenge modernity continue to find expression within it. Her research is guided by a passion for ecological stewardship and planetary wellbeing.