Dr. Kala Acharya is the Director of K.J. Somaiya Bharatiya Sanskriti Peetham since its inception in 1989. She is a versatile Sanskrit scholar with outstanding merit.  

Kala Acharya has been honoured the Best University Teacher’s Award for the year 2010 - 11 by the Government of Maharashtra. She has also been honoured as ‘Sanskrit Pandita’ by the Government of Maharashtra in 1994.

Kala Acharya is recognized as a Ph.D. guide. Fifteen  of her students have received Ph.D. and 03 are presently pursuing Ph.D. under her guidance.

She has presented more than 50 research papers in National and International seminars in India and abroad. Many of them are published. She has independently authored two books and edited fourteen books on topics related to Religion, Philosophy, Culture, Comparative Religion and Sanskrit Language.

Kala Acharya has edited and contributed two chapters to a book ‘The Concept of God in Indian Mediaeval Philosophy’ which has been published by the University of Navarra, Spain in Spanish.

Kala Acharya has represented her institute in US, UK, Switzerland, Australia, Japan, Thailand, Cambodia, Taiwan, Kazakhstan, Vatican, Spain, Korea, Italy and spread the message of Indian Culture.

During her tenure as a Director K.J. Somaiya Bharatiya Sanskriti Peetham is developed as a Center for ‘Inter-religious Dialogue in Hinduism Christianity and Islam’. She has been working as the member of the core group of the ‘Secretariat of the Congress of the Leaders of World and Traditional Religions’ in Kazakhstan. She has been attending the Congress as a Hindu representative since 2003. Kala Acharya was appointed as the ‘Ambassador of Parliament of World Religions 2009’ and has been also appointed as the ‘Ambassador of Parliament of World Religions’ for the next Parliament.