The grand narrative of India is the narrative of it’s knowledge traditions. India has a continuous textual tradition which needs to be traced and built.

About Speaker:

Shri Kapil Kapoor is an Indian scholar of linguistics and literature and an authority on Indian intellectual traditions.
Currently, Prof Kapoor is Member – PM’s 75th year Amrut Mahotsav Committee
Member Exec Council – NMML (Now PMML)

Member, High Level Committee, IKS, Ministry of Education

And Chairman – Editorial Committee, Indian Historical Records Committee, National Archives
Formerly Prof Kapoor was:
Chairman – IIAS
Pro VC – JNU
Chairman, MHRD, Language Expert Committee
Professor of English in JNU and where he also established the Centre for Sanskrit Studies

He is the Editor in Chief of the unique 11 volume set of The Encyclopaedia of Hinduism And also of the Sahitya Akademi Sponsored and yet to be published – Encyclopaedia of Indian Poetics which is also a UNESCO project