What does a truly Viksit Bharat look like — beyond GDP? Rahul Dewan opens Swarajya Conclave with uncomfortable civilisational questions.
Rahul Dewan, founder of Sangam Talks, opens their first large-scale conference by asking whether India’s development goals are measured by the right indicators. Economic metrics like $13,500 per capita income matter, but he asks deeper questions: Will stone-pelting on Ram Navami stop? Will the state protect equal freedom of expression across religions? What does a genuinely decolonised India look like? He uses Ayurveda as a lens — arguing that applying modern medicine’s evidence-based framework to validate Ayurveda is epistemologically flawed, and that Indian knowledge systems deserve to be evaluated on their own terms.

About The Speaker:

Rahul Dewan is a tech entrepreneur, angel investor, blogger, social activist, and Yoga & Meditation practitioner. In 2016, he founded SangamTalks – the largest YouTube channel for documentation of ‘Indian Knowledge Systems’ (IKS) and untold Indian History. Having exited his software services business (600 people) successfully, he now dedicates his full time to Dharmic causes. He is currently on a mission to raise 1000 Crores for Hindu civilizational causes, and to campaign for making Hinduism Missionary again.