The Bhartiya way is sustainable and strives for the welfare of all. It is important that we regain the comprehensive knowledge system of our heritage and demonstrate the ‘Indian way’ of doing things to the world. This requires training generations of scholars who will demonstrate and exemplify to the world a way of life so unique and peculiar to our great civilization. The NEP, 2020 recognizes this rich heritage of ancient and eternal Indian knowledge and thought as a guiding principle.
The Indian Knowledge Systems comprising Jnan, Vignan, and Jeevan Darshan have evolved out of experience, observation, experimentation, and rigorous analysis. This tradition of validating and putting into practice has impacted our education, arts, administration, law, justice, health, manufacturing, and commerce. The Sangam IKS series is the outcome of MoE, IKS division project work undertaken by Sangam Talks to disseminate this tradition.
About The Talk:–
Indian Ayurvedic Medicine is known world wide but Indians also practiced surgery and other higher medical procedures in ancient times. The Texts like Sushrut Samhita and Charak Sammhita are the evidences that Ancient Indian society had a developed medical science and public health awareness.
The narrative imposed by the Colonial Missionaries, Socialist Academia that Indian society was segregating certain sections of society is also refutedby the speaker with evidence from texts like BhagvadGita.
About Speaker:
Dr Raj Vedam holds a doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering with many years of multi-disciplinary experience, and has developed a strong research interest in the history of sciences, mathematics and technology. His research shows unacknowledged but significant contributions of ancient Indians to sciences and math, impacting several civilizations over different periods of time.
While Western texts on the subject enforce a parochial narrative sourcing all sciences and math from ancient Greece or Rome or Egypt, Raj Vedam presents contrary facts and evidence to show their indebtedness to the Indian civilization. He has presented his findings in over 200 public talks, several teacher training workshops, several research publications, and offers two courses on the same at Hindu University of America.
