Can a four-year search for a Guru at age 14 — and one line from a master — launch a spiritual revolution in India? That is the story Captain Praveen Chaturvedi tells in this address.

Speaking at an education seminar attended by Millennium School and Adi Vidya Foundation, the filmmaker and founder of Prachyam TV (India’s first Bharatiya Sanatani OTT platform) traces his personal journey: from a convent school upbringing with no access to Vedic knowledge, to a four-year quest that ended with finding Swami Sivananda in Kashi. That experience of civilizational disconnection forged a lifelong resolve — that no Indian child should suffer the same ignorance about their own culture, Rishi Parampara, and scriptures.

Chaturvedi delivers two sharp anecdotes: an American professor at UCLA teaching Bhagavad Gita shlokas to business students while Indian schools ignored the same texts, and his Guru’s parting words before his Hollywood years — “you will have to come back.” He returned to build Prachyam’s library of 450 films on Bharatiya civilization, and calls directly on India’s education ministry to integrate spiritual education rooted in Guru-Shishya Parampara into every school curriculum. The world already recognizes India’s scriptural wealth, he argues. It is time India did too.

About the speaker:
Praveen is a former mariner, filmmaker, and poet who is a proud bearer of Vedic traditions and the Guru-Shishya tradition of India. He is the Founder & CEO at Prachyam Studios Pvt. Ltd., Founder & CEO at Moonlight Pictures. Prachyam is a platform that uses storytelling and cinematic expression to illuminate India’s traditions and message.