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In this talk, I will explain my idea of what should be "Indian Knowledge Systems" (IKS).

While Dr. Ramanujam is a researcher in logic and automata theory, he also has been active in adult education and school science and mathematics education over the last three decades in India, mostly with the poorest sections of society. This work has also led him  to participate in committees at the national and state level. These two views of education, from high above in the committees, and from the ground in villages and urban slums, are in sharp contrast, and he will talk about his learning from this.

 It is no secret that the world is facing an environmental crisis.  Why should one care? And what should we do? These are questions that concern any thoughtful person.  The answer to them depends, of course, on one’s philosophical views—most crucially, ethical and political. In this talk I will provide an answer to the questions from the perspective of Buddhist philosophy. No prior knowledge of Buddhist thought will be presumed.

This presentation includes the Pre-historic & Engineering development chronology & methods of planning as well as constructions adopted so far.

• The Monumental Construction of Shri Ramlalla Mandir at Ayodhya began after the 450 years of struggle & HSC verdict on 9th Nov’2019. Now, this has become devotional movement of National importance. 
   

The focus of much of Indology in the West, unfortunately, is on the social narratives in India’s epics and ancient texts, with very little exploration of science contained within or evidentiary assessment from scientific perspective. 

We shall take a fresh, scientific evidence-focused approach to studying the history of Indian Civilization.  

India would be completing 100 years of independence in 2046-47. In its journey, from gaining independence in 1947 to 2022, India’s growth path has followed an interesting pattern. The country had followed a mixed economic ideology for the first few decades under centralized planning and by 1991, decided to undertake significant reforms and open the domestic market to the global economy.

Work on personal identity within Western philosophy has tended to be very individualistic.  There are theories that stress memories, theories that focus on autobiographical narratives, and others that emphasize agency.  Each of these is then typically described in ways that make little or no reference to social relationships. The same is true of animalist theories, which equate persons with organisms.  Unsurprisingly, work on identity in the social sciences is quite different.

Ancient India’s contribution to economic ethics is shaped by four objectives of life (purusharthas), achieved in the context of four stages of life (ashramas), four vocations of life (varnas), and four branches of knowledge (vidyas).  Hindu treatises such as the Vedas, Upanishads, Ramayana, Mahabharata, and Puranas; political economy treatises like Arthashastra and Shukraniti; and law books such as Manu-Smriti, Yajnavalkya-Smriti, and a liberal digest on them by Lakshmi Devi have affected the Indian way of life, including economic life.  Emphasis on actions in harmony with univers

India and US are the two largest democracies and among the five largest economies of the world.  Together they can build relationship that could shape the world in the coming decades if not centuries.  The relationship has evolved into a ‘global strategic partnership’ and is considered ‘natural’ by both countries and their citizens. It is high time that the relationship is focused on thoughtful futuristic cooperation.  India desires to become a leading power.

In this talk we will give a historical perspective of Euclid’s famous parallel postulate which was considered to be obvious.  However this problem remained unsolved for over 2000 years.  We will explain how the solution to this problem opened interesting research directions in the study of  low-dimensional topology.