Indian Knowledge Systems

Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC

Speakers: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC; Dr. Ranjana Aggarwal, Director, CSIR-NIScPR; Dr. Anil D.Sahasrabuddhe, Chairman, AICTE; Dr. Sudha Gopalakrishnan, Executive Director, IIC-International Research Division; Shri Chamu Krishna Sastry, Member, Mission High Level Committee (MHLC) of Indian Knowledge Systems; and Dr. Aditya Kumar Gupta, Faculty, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Delhi

India is renowned for its treasure-house of literature going back several millennia with a great diversity of languages, from pan-Indian Sanskrit to hundreds of regional languages. However, many traditional and ancient knowledge systems have been lost to humanity for various reasons. The actions and initiatives to mainstream Indian knowledge systems have been either sporadic or limited. Intensive and extensive approaches are therefore required to bring Indian knowledge systems and, whenever possible and relevant, bridge them to the present-day knowledge systems.

(Collaboration: CSIR-National Institute of Science Communication and Policy Research)