Sindhoor Pangal — press kit

Sindhoor Pangal is a canine behaviour consultant, canine myotherapist and anthrozoologist, and an engineer by training. She holds a Master's in Anthrozoology from the University of Exeter and researches free-living dogs in Bangalore, India. She is a TEDx speaker and the author of Dog Knows (HarperCollins India).

Sindhoor left her corporate career to work with dogs after her dog Nishi met with an accident and needed special physical and emotional care. She began as a behaviour and myotherapy consultant for companion dogs, and soon discovered her passion for studying India's free-living dogs — the animals now at the centre of her research. She has published her work in the peer-reviewed journal Human–Animal Interactions and presented her findings at major international conferences in the US and UK, with seminars across Europe and South America. A member of the Animal Behavior Society, she has been an invited expert on several podcasts, including on NPR, and maintained a weekly dog-behaviour column in The Bangalore Mirror for two years. National Geographic names hers a "Great Mind" in the bookazine Genius of Dogs.

She is the founder, principal and director of BHARCS, an academy teaching canine behaviour through ethology, biosociopsychology and zoosemiotics. Its programmes — including the practitioner certification BACBECC — are grounded in original field research and a non-control-based approach that teaches students to observe before they intervene, and to work with dogs without controlling them. While she wears many hats, Sindhoor's favourite role has been being mother to two dogs — Nishi, who recently passed away, and Cheeru — whom she considers her inspiration and her greatest teachers.