Faculty

Kalpita Bhar Paul is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at School of Liberal Studies, BML Munjal University. She has completed her PhD from Manipal University in Environmental Philosophy and was a postdoctoral fellow at IIT Bombay. Her research interests are Applied Ethics, Environmental Philosophy, and Heidegger’s Phenomenology. Before joining BMU, she was a founding faculty at Krea University and taught Philosophy and Environmental Studies. She has also worked in Sustainable Development and natural resource management programs in NGDOs. Currently she serves as an associate editor of Environmental Values Journal.

• Graduation In: Histroy, Philosophy, Bengali
• Graduation From: Burdwan University, West Bengal
• Graduation Year: 2007

• Post Graduation In: Environment and Development
• Post Graduation From: Jadavpur University, West Bengal
• Post Graduation Year: 2012

• Doctorate In: Environmental Humanities
• Doctorate From: Manipal University
• Doctorate Year: 2017

Journal Articles

• 2024. Coemergent eco-consciousness and self-consciousness. Environmental Values 33 (3), 253-256
• 2025. Eco-conscious living in the Anthropocene: Rethinking values amidst environmental crisis. Environmental Values 34 (2), 117-121
• “Kalpita Bhar Paul and Soumyajit Bhar. 2023. “Reconciling Interpretations of ‘Being as Such’: Contribution to Ecophenomenology. International Journal of Applied Philosophy, 36(2): 307-326. “
• Kalpita Bhar Paul. 2023. “COVID-19, Migrant Crisis and Social Contagion of Good Life: A Case Study from Indian Sundarbans” in R. Sreejith Varma, Ajanta Sircar edited Contagion Narratives: The Society, Culture and Ecology of the Global South. Routledge.
• “Kalpita Bhar Paul. 2020. “A Second Wave of Forest-Settlement Territorialization: A case study from the Indian Sundarbans.” Environment, Space, Place, 12(1): 83-109. “
• Kalpita Bhar Paul. 2019. “The Ecology of Ahiṃsā: Deconstructing the Transition of Ahiṃsā from being a Religious Vow to an Environmental Ethos.” International Journal of Applied Philosophy (Philosophical Documentation Centre [PDC] & SCOPUS), 33(1): 71-87.
• Kalpita Bhar Paul. 2019. “A Heideggerian Perspective on Thinking about Water: Revisiting the Transition from Hydrology to Hydrosocial Nexus.” Environmental Philosophy (PDC, JSTOR, & UGC), 16(2): 339-358

Monograph

• 2024. Ecophenomenology and the Environmental Crisis in the Sundarbans: Towards a Community-Based Ethic. Taylor & Francis

Essay in Media

• Paul K. B and Aveek Mondal. 2026. Everything Santa Claus Has Come to Mean for Indians
• The Wire.
• Paul K. B. and Soumyajit Bhar. 2026. The Aravalli judgement is not erosion by wind or time — it is erased by bureaucratic language. Down to Earth.
• Paul K. B. and Soumyajit Bhar. 2025. Empathetic education. The Telegraph.
• Bhar Soumyajit and Kalpita Bhar Paul. 2024. Mental health in India’s material world. The Hindu.
• Kalpita Bhar Paul and Soumyajit Bhar. 2024. Suicide: An Existential Phenomenon in a World of Impermanence. The Wire, 13th Sept, 2024.

• Member of Ethics Committee, IIIT Sricity, 2021-till date.
• Associate Editor, Environmental Values, 2021- till date