User:Ashok K. Malhotra

Dr. Ashok Kumar Malhotra is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy at the SUNY College at Oneonta (http://employees.oneonta.edu/malhotak). He received his BA and MA degrees from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (Pilani, India) and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Hawaii (Honolulu, USA). His honors include: Gold Medal for MA Examination, University of Rajasthan, India; Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching; UUP Excellence Award; Friends of Education Award; Bharat Excellence Award; Jewel of India Gold Award; Spiritual Leadership Award (SIUE); Gullands NRI Excellence Award; East West Center Distinguished Alumni Award and University of Hawaii Distinguished Alumni Award. His works include: Jean Paul Sartre’s Existentialism in Nausea; Jean Paul Sartre’s Existentialism in Literature and Philosophy; On Hindu Philosophies of Experience; Pathways to Philosophy (with Douglas Shrader); Guidebook for Pathways to Philosophy (with Douglas Shrader); Culture and Self (with Douglas Allen); Transcreation of the Bhagavad Gita; Instant Nirvana, First Edition; An Introduction to Yoga Philosophy; Wisdom of the Tao Te Ching; Instant Nirvana, Second Edition; Yoga and Meditation Now and Sartre and Yoga; along with 50 papers on Asian and Comparative Philosophy; a dozen poems and articles on Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Yoga and Zen for the Religious Column of The Daily Star, a local news paper. Malhotra is the founder of the Yoga and Meditation Society (http://external.oneont.edu/yoga/) that has invited more than 25 scholars and practitioners from all over the world to SUNY College at Oneonta. His interviews of these scholars along with TV program on “Gentle Yoga for Relaxation” are being shown on the Public Access Channel. The interviews are also available on YouTube under “SUNY Oneonta: In Discussion.” He writes a monthly column on Yoga Life for the O’Town Scene of the Daily Star. He was a consultant for Warner Brothers TV series "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues" and made guest appearances on TV and Radio in Australia, France, Holland, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the USA. Malhotra is the founder of the Ninash Foundation (www.ninash.org), a 501(c) (3) charity that has built six schools in the three villages for more than 1200 impoverished female and minority children of India. He was elected as a delegate from the 24th district of New York and represented the state at the 2008 Democratic Convention in Denver.