Tara Das Email and Phone Number

Tara Das is a Therapist, Buddhist Psychologist, Author, AI Consultant at SHAMAH | शम:. Colleagues describe them as "I have known Gayatri both professionally and personally for about a decade and have found her to be getting younger as she advances in the years. If youth is about the effervescence of enquiry, or still having the quest for more in the eyes and about discovering yourself, then she has the unending fountain. A single mother who has had an unusual education and upbringing, she is now setting out on a new journey. I found Gayatri’s work as a journalist stand out for it depth, insights and ability to go beyond the ordinary. She does not shy away from tough subjects and dares to go beyond the current accepted ‘truths’. In fact, her book – ‘Who Me Poor?’ on urban poverty among middle class millennial Indians triggered angry debates on the subject in India. Gayatri documents the costs of peer pressure and the inability to earn enough, especially in the early years, of Indian youth who are in white collar jobs in the Indian mega cities. Her series on the forgotten people of India is again a case in point of her ability to find human stories that others cannot and then find a way to make them relevant to our short-attention-span lives. Her transition out of the profession into a new space comes at a time when professionally she was seeking something more and personally she is at a stage she can make a life transition. Due to her work and persona, changing track to becoming a counselor is not surprising at all. And I am delighted that she has the courage to take this further to blend in the spiritual part in this quest. Psychology, the way it has been attempted minus the spiritual focus, can be a dry interpretation of symptoms and data, but blend in spirituality and the results can be stunning. I speak with a little bit of experience having done a diploma in integral psychology at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry some years back. I find Gayatri deeply spiritual and very connected to the ancient living civilization in which she was born. Perhaps that connection keeps her going in this very complicated world that we now live in. My absolute privilege to be connected to her."