Dr. Amruth G Kumar is a research awardee of University Grants Commission, New Delhi. He was awarded with certificate of merit for teaching based on the student assessment for five times consecutively when he was Assistant Professor at Pondicherry Central University. He has published seven books and has several research papers for his credit in National and International journals. He is a columnist for national dailies, through which he expresses his views on the contemporary educational issues and developments. Dr Amruth has travelled widely as part of his academic endeavors. He was selected for the International Visitor Leadership funding of the Department of State of the United States to associate with academic and research initiatives with various Universities in USA. His paper bagged the best paper award in European educational conference held at Rome, Italy in 2012. He headed PMMM National Mission on Teachers and Teaching School of Education at CUK, a prestigious project of the Ministry of Human Resource Development Ministry, Government of India. In continuation of PMMM National Mission on Teachers and Teaching he became the first Director of the Malavia Mission Teacher Training Centre (MMTTP) at central University of Kerala. Dr Amruth's scholarly interests include critical theory in education, Neoliberal policies in education and policy analysis in education. Dr. Amruth critically probes into the influences of neoliberal policies in shaping the psyche of stakeholders of education. Exploring the ramifications of neoliberal economy, Dr Amruth attempts to build up a broad framework for pedagogic interference to empower the teachers and students. He prefers to combine quantitative and qualitative approaches in his research. He draws a lot from Poetry, literature and philosophy in his teaching and research.