Dr. Shruti Shankar Gaur has an uncanny ability to think from the heart and feel from the mind. This unique sensibility runs through all her writing. Since childhood, she has been scribbling her heart into diaries, trying to play with the words, and discovering their magic. She has always believed that words hold power and more so in an AI driven era, where writing is a thought revolution. Whether she is crafting articles, essays, stories, or poetry, Dr. Gaur seamlessly brings together a simplified depth, which is rare in the world of jargons.
Her professional writing journey began in 2017 while she was pursuing her Ph.D.. Her first four publications were academic, chapters and articles featured in research journals and scholarly books. Her writing expanded as she transitioned from a research scholar to a passionate entrepreneur in 2019, driven by a vision to create children’s literature and simplify concepts rooted in inclusion and diversity. As the founder of RIEDU, she has led the entire process: from conceptualisation to publication. She began blogging in 2020 and published her first poetry collection in 2022. In 2023, she launched RIEDU’s newsletter, Diversive.
Her association with The Digital Economist and her exposure to global platforms such as the G20, WEF, Cannes Lions, and UNGA further established her as a compelling voice in inclusion and diversity. This journey deepened her commitment to reimagining learning in an AI-driven world, leading to numerous academic articles and policy briefs in this evolving space.
Details of the published work
Publication 23
My ideas on the intersection of AI and humanity are featured in Signals Through The Noise: Making Sense of the Digital Economy—Through the People Building It. Chapter 4, “How an AI Revolution Will Lead to Human Evolution,” draws from my conversation with Jamil Hasan on the Crypto Hipster Podcast (March 12, 2025). The chapter explores a central question of our times: as technology advances, how must humanity evolve, not just in skill, but in consciousness, ethics, and empathy.
Publication 22
My poem “Where Do We Belong?” has been selected by The Open University, a leading distance learning institution in the United Kingdom to be added in their teaching materials. It features in the course “You and Your World: Introducing the Social Sciences”, offered by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), contributing to conversations on identity, belonging, and the human experience.
Publication 21
POLICY PAPER: AI Trade-Offs — A Systems Lens on Decision-Making
Artificial intelligence is no longer just a technological challenge — it is a systems challenge. The position paper was published by The Digital Economist, unpacks how AI reshapes national strategies, education, health, mobility, digital rights, and the environment by surfacing one central truth: every AI deployment comes with trade-offs.
Drawing from seven real-world scenarios — from AI-first national policies and autonomous cars to personalized health, child data, chatbots, and e-waste — the paper reveals how AI systems quietly shift risk, responsibility, and power across society.
It highlights:
✔ How fragmented national AI strategies hide deep vulnerabilities in hardware, data flows, and supply chains
✔ The risks of data-driven profiling in education, hiring, and health
✔ The psychological and cognitive impacts of conversational AI
✔ The environmental crisis brewing beneath AI’s hardware and e-waste footprint
✔ The rise of neurorights, digital harm, and the erosion of human skills
✔ The urgent need for AI literacy across governments, institutions, and society
Publication 20
Second Author to Chapter 4 Kouroukan Fouga from the book Healing Broken World, published by The Digital Economist.
Before blockchain. Before constitutions. There was the Kouroukan Fouga—an oral charter forged in 13th-century Mali, articulating a shared vision for justice, harmony, and collective responsibility.
Today, as our global systems fracture under the weight of inequality, climate collapse, and digital overreach, we turn to this ancient wisdom—not as nostalgia, but as instruction.
“Lessons from the Kouroukan Fouga for the Modern World” is a bold intervention in our Healing a Broken World series—authored by Marie Shabaya, Shruti Shankar Gaur, Ph.D., Oluneye Oluwole®, and Jaya Samuel. It surfaces one of the oldest known social contracts as a living framework for ethical governance, ecological stewardship, and inclusive leadership in the digital age.
Inside the paper:
– The ecological intelligence of precolonial land management
– Gender equity embedded in ancestral governance
– Civic duty, accountability, and consensus without coercion
– What digital societies can learn from oral tradition and indigenous diplomacy
This isn’t about going back. It’s about rooting forward-facing innovation in the deep soil of relational wisdom—building a digital economy that remembers what it means to belong.
Publication 19
Second Author to Chapter Beyond Colonialism from the book Healing Broken World, published by The Digital Economist.
Beyond Neocolonialism: Pursuing Just, Equitable, and Inclusive Economies and Societies for the Digital Economy Era is a sweeping position paper that examines this continuity with clarity and force.
Inside the paper:
– How multinational corporations operate as proxy states
– The neocolonial patterns hidden in development finance and impact investing
– Investor-state arbitration used to suppress national sovereignty
– Legal blind spots enabling labor exploitation and ecological collapse
– Case studies from Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia
Why this matters:
As the Global South transitions into digital and green futures, it faces a dangerous choice: replicate the extractive systems of the past—or reimagine global cooperation on new terms. This paper is a call to choose justice, sovereignty, and accountability.
Publication 18
Authored the essence of The Davos Reunion, an event that celebrated diversity of thought and embodied inclusion in both letter and spirit.
Publication 17
One of the contributing authors to the first anthology “Seeking Veritas by The Professor, The Poet, and Friends” is a collaborative project that produces writings, musings, and attempts at honest discourse by a group of passionately dedicated writers and poets.
Publication 16
Translated Telugu Memoir Guruvu kaani Guruvutho Naa Prayaanam by Prabhakara Sastri Nandula into English by the name Advaita of the Unsung Teachers on 5th September 2023.
Publication 15
Regularly contribute articles and poems as creative partner, published by Sankarsingh-Gonsalves Productions, Ontario, Canada which can be accessed at LinkedIn & Substack
Publication 14
Awarded Educators Fellowship for Write of Passage, Cohort 10, April-May 2023
Published a 5-article series during the Cohort 10 of Write of Passage by the title ‘Unlacing the Cultural Labels’:
Publication 13
Editor-in-Chief of DIVERSIVE, RIEDU’s newsletter created with a vision to simplify complex ideas like belongingness, inclusion, integration, segregation, exclusion, impairment, ability, disability, handicap, labeling, diversity, ableism, domestication, judgement, biasedness, et al to arouse awareness towards the silent indoctrination that eventually molds and categorizes us all instead of unifying us.
| Issue | Theme |
| 1 | Belongingness |
| 2 | Inclusion |
| 3 | Competency |
| 4 | Diversity |
| 5 | Lateral Thinking |
| 6 | Disability |
| 7 | Culture |
| 8 | Heritage |
| 9 | Pride Month |
| 10 | Gamification |
| 11 | The Digital Age |
| 12 | Advaita of the Unsung Teachers |
Publication 12
Started blogging in 2020 Pain & Bliss to celebrate the whole spectrum of life.
Publication 11
Wrote 30 poems in 30 days as part of Long Form Writing Cohort 2, during National Poetry Writing Month, April 2022 which eventually led to publishing first poetry book Four Decades The Prose of My Life, a collection of forty poems in June 2022 on Amazon Kindle. ISBN-13 : 979-8837272745
Publication 10
Authored Chapter ‘Mainstreaming to Alternative Education’ published in the book Alternative Schooling by Institute for Research in Indian Wisdom (IRIW), December 2021, ISBN: 978-81-955489-1-0
Publication 9
Authored Chapter ‘Education from being Special to Inclusive, published in the book Contours of Education by Institute for Research in Indian Wisdom, December 2021, ISBN – 978-81-955489-0-3
Publication 8
In January 2021, as Founder RIEDU, edited & published Pole Star, Lighthouse for the future Scions, a children’s book, a compilation of cultural stories, fables, articles, paintings, and quizzes of, for & by the children from across the world., theme – culture & diversity , published in January 2021, , ISBN-10 : 8194805643, ISBN-13 : 978-8194805649
Publication 8a
Authored a children’s fable – Mehr-un-Nissa in Pole Star
Publication 8b
Authored a children’s fable The Silk Legend in Pole Star
Publication 8c
Authored a play on showcasing inclusion – Juliet Ashton adventure in Pole Star
Publication 8d
Authored a fable for children – Shaman & The Four Winds
Publication 8e
Authored a research article exclusively written for young minds – Exploring culture & heritage through the lens of children in Pole Star
Publication 7
In February 2020, as Founder RIEDU, conceptualized, created, edited and published the second volume of The Marshmallow, a global research based children’s e-magazine formulated from UN SDG 4.7 with core values inclusion and diversity. The theme for the second volume was Creativity & Problem Solving.
Publication 6
In Novermber 2019, as Founder RIEDU, conceptualized, created, edited and launched The Marshmallow, a global research based children’s e-magazine formulated from UN SDG 4.7 with core values inclusion and diversity. The first issue was structured on the theme- Empathy & Kindness
Publication 5
As Founder, RIEDU, authored and published a three part series ‘Gandhi & Inclusion’ in October 2019, celebrating ‘150 years of Mahatama’ in her blog ‘The Quest’
Part II – Tear Down the Purdah
Part III – Satyagraha: The Soul Force
Publication 4
Authored Chapter Inclusivity In Education: Myth & Reality published in the book Psychological and Sociological Perspectives in Diversity and Inclusion: An Anthology for Researchers and Practitioners in May 2018, Edited by Professor Vandana Saxena and Professor Sandeep Kumar, CIE, Delhi University. ISBN: 978-81-8457-841-6
Publication 3
Authored chapter – Interdisciplinary Teaching was published in the book Teacher in the 21st Century, page 174 by SAGE Publications India Pvt. Limited. ISBN 978-93-528-0730-7 on September 2018
Publication 2
Authored chapter 7 – Inclusive Education was published in Teacher in the 21st Century Page 145, by SAGE Publications India Pvt. Limited. ISBN: 978-93-528-0730-7 September, 2018
Publication 1
Authored research article ‘Self-Concept & Daily Living Skills of Children with Special Needs: An Empirical Study’ published in Political Economy Journal of India, Page 75, ISSN No. 0971-2097, Volume 26, Issue 3 & 4, July to December 2017. -85. July 1, 2017.