Prof. Manish Arora is Professor & Head, Department of Applied Arts, Faculty of Visual Arts, Banaras Hindu University — India’s foremost central university. A UGC Raman Post-Doctoral Fellow (Johns Hopkins University, USA, 2014), he is the first Fine Arts faculty member in India to receive this distinction. With 27+ years of academic experience, ₹11.65 Crore in funded research, and a creative practice spanning institutional identity, typography, and social design, Prof. Arora is one of India’s leading voices in Visual Communication Design.