Thinking with India, Forming the Human retrieves the intellectual and spiritual legacy of Jnana Deepa, Pune, at the centenary of its ecclesiastical degree-granting service. More than an institutional history, the book presents Jnana Deepa as a school of integral Indian Christian formation. It remembers teachers who shaped generations through metaphysics, epistemology, Nyaya, Advaita, bhakti, hermeneutics, liberation, sociology, psychology, folk religion, Dalit Christianity, science-religion dialogue, and public reason. Its central argument is that philosophy at Jnana Deepa was never isolated from life. It trained minds, formed hearts, widened horizons, and prepared students to think truthfully, believe responsibly, dialogue humbly, heal inwardly, and serve justly. Written with the affection of an insider and the care of a scholar, the volume becomes both homage and invitation: to remember a living tradition and to renew it for the Church, India, and the human future. It is grateful, critical, hopeful, and quietly demanding in tone.

Kuruvilla Pandikattu SJ is a Jesuit priest of the Dumka-Raiganj Province and a scholar at the intersection of physics, philosophy, theology, and ethics is based at St. Xavier's College, Dumka. Formerly Professor of Physics, Philosophy, and Religion at Jnana Deepa, Pune, and Chair Professor of Business Ethics at XLRI Jamshedpur, he holds three masters degrees and doctorates in theology and philosophy. He has authored 37 books, edited 33, and written around 240 scholarly articles. His work spans business ethics, applied ethics, science-religion dialogue, philosophical anthropology, artificial intelligence, eschatology, transhumanism, and human futures. He writes to connect rigorous thought with compassionate living across cultures, disciplines, and faith traditions.