Yamuna is not just a river — she is India’s political, social, and dharmic conscience, and saving her is a sacred duty. This richly synthetic talk situates Yamuna within global Indo-European mythology, arguing that her identity as Yami — twin sister of Yama, the god of dharma and death — encodes deep civilisational values about justice, governance, and ecological responsibility.

The speaker draws compelling parallels between Yama/Yami in Vedic tradition and the Iranian Yam/Jam, establishing Yamuna as a cross-civilisational archetype of the first human and the first law. He distinguishes Yamuna’s social-political symbolism from Ganga’s spiritual-ascetic character — noting that India’s political capitals have historically sat on the Yamuna, not the Ganga. The talk closes with an urgent call: just as Yama nears death as a metaphor for the river’s condition, invoking Yama as king of dharma is the civilisational imperative for Yamuna’s restoration.

About the Speaker:
Come Carpentier is the author of various books and has written some two hundred articles, essays and papers published in diverse journals, seminar proceedings, magazines and newspapers. He is currently the Convener of the Editorial Board of the WORLD AFFAIRS JOURNAL, a quarterly publication. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the India Foundation, a leading thinktank and forum in New Delhi. He is an associate of the International Institute for Social and Economic Studies (IISES), Vienna, Austria and of the Exopolitics Institute, USA.