Bengal was once the Oxford of Indian logic — and Navya Nyaya is the tradition that made it so. Physicist and Indian metaphysics scholar Dr. Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar explains Navya Nyaya — the revolutionary step in Indian logic originating in Mithila and reaching its zenith in Bengal through Acharya Gangesh Upadhyay, Bhattacharya, Taralankara, and Raghunath Shiromani.

The tols of Bengal — decentralised Chhatushpati learning centres — produced the finest logicians of the medieval world. Dr. Mrittunjoy argues that Navya Nyaya is not just historical but essential to understanding Bengal’s future: to know where Bengal should go, one must understand what the pillars of its greatness actually were. He connects this intellectual tradition to Bengal’s broader socio-political role in India’s independence movement — where culture, philosophy, and politics were never separate.

About The Speaker:
Dr Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar is an Adjunct Professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengaluru, and an Assistant Professor at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Delhi NCR. He holds a PhD from the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. He has conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard University, the Indian Institute of Science, and with Nobel Laureate Prof. Brian Josephson. His research spans quantum information, entanglement, and quantum machine learning. A recognized science communicator and policy advisor, he has worked with UNESCO, the G20, and the Government of India. He is the author of the bestselling book ‘From Shiva to Schrödinger’ (Penguin) and National Convenor of Mandala, a platform integrating science and Indic knowledge systems.

Debasis Sarkar is an Anchor at Sangam Talks. He is an independent researcher in Indology and a seeker in related fields of knowledge.