Balaganapathi Devarakonda is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Delhi, India, and is presently holding ICCR Chair of Indology at the University of West Indies, Mona campus, Jamaica. 

Bala is a passionate teacher and a practitioner of Philosophy. As a pioneer of the Philosophical Counselling movement in India, he has been helping people with ethical dilemmas, cognitive stress, anxiety, and other mental concerns of everyday life with his philosophical counselling tools. He has a PhD from the University of Hyderabad, India, in Philosophy and has gained more than two decades of teaching and research experience. Bala believes that an individual can lead a happy and effective life by realising inner strength and potentiality through self-reflection and self-care. He aims to help people in this realisation through the practice of yoga and Philosophy. He has been offering workshops and sessions on Mindfulness meditation and Leadership as a part of his philosophical practice.

Bala is one of the fouding directors of PPAI.