Dr. Roop Rekha Verma (Founder & Secretary : Saajhi Duniya)

Dr. Roop Rekha Verma, Ph.D, formerly, the Vice-chancellor, Professor & Head of the Philosophy Department and Dean, Faculty of Arts Lucknow University has taught there from 1964–2003. She has also been a recipient of the Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship for Oxford and has had the honor to be invited to deliver lectures and present research papers in various conferences/international seminars at many Indian and foreign Universities.


She is a prolific writer and has published more than four dozen research papers in various books and journals, in India and abroad. Her publications include Philosophy of P.F. Strawson co-edited with Pranab Kumar Sen, published by ICPR in 1995. Her academic interest includes pursuit of Philosophical Logic and Epistemology, Social Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind and Metaphysics. She has been nominated by the government of India as Executive Council Members of Aligarh Muslim University, Mahila Samakhya and in the Academic Committees of NCERT, Bhatkhande Music University and UP Social Welfare Board. Besides, she had occupied higher advisory positions as Honorary Advisor, ICPR and Member of UGC Philosophy panel, thrice. She was also selected as National Lecturer of University Grants Commission. She established the Institute of Women's Studies in Lucknow University and remained its Director since inception in 1997 till 2005.

Professor Verma is a well- known Social Activist also and has intervened in several dozen cases of Violence on Women and Communal Violence, and fought for justice for the victims. She has been awarded Begum Hazrat Mahal Award for Communal Harmony and Life Time Achievement Award in 2006 by Indian Social Science Association. She is the founder Secretary of social organisation called Saajhi Duniya which initially function under the name Nagrik-Dharam Samaj.

She is secretary of Saajhi Duniya, Non Governmental Organization that battles violence against women, advocates for the equal and full participation of women in all efforts, promotes communal harmony and secularism, betterment of Indian educational system, Farmer Issues, etc.