Renuka Sharma, formerly of the University of Melbourne and Monash Asia Institute, Australia, was trained in medicine, psychiatry, and psychotherapy. She continued her practice in medical and psychoanalytic counselling, while pursuing further studies in emotions, feminist philosophy, and ethics, which were curtailed due to her premature demise in 2002. A formidable worker and thinker, she left behind a legacy as an engaged social phenomenologist in Australia, India, and the US.