Dr. Shrutidhara Chakravarty is a Professor at the Department of Sanskrit, Gauhati University. her field of special interest of studies covers Sanskrit literature and Indian Aesthetics. She has to her creditmore than thirty research articles which have been published in national and international journals of repute. she has authored two books entitled (i) Paninian Influence on Sanskrit Poetics, and (ii) Studies in Sanskrit Literature, Culture and Art. She has also edited one book and two journals. she got the prestigious 'Sragdhara Nandi Proze' for presenting the best paper on Aesthetics in the 45th session of the All India Oriental Conference held at Tirupati in june 2010.