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Day 10, Session 1: Round Up Shatavadhani Dr. R. Ganesh The great seer-poets – Vyasa, Valmiki, and Kalidasa – have a great emotional connect with the readers. Th...
The day started off with a Sanskrit appreciation session by Arjun Bharadwaj and ended with a wonderful puppet show based on the fourth act of Shaakuntalam, by S...
The day began with Shashi Kiran's session on appreciating Sanskrit through subhashitas and ended with a wonderful dance performance by Ramaa Bharadvaj titled Mi...
Day 7 The day began with a trip to Fort Kochi, followed by a visit to the Paradesi Synagogue, the oldest active synagogue in India, which was built in the 16th...
Arjun Bharadwaj started off the day’s proceeding with the fourth session of kavya-samskrtam, which has been a regular morning activity of the summer school. In...
Day 5, Session 1: Meghadutam Shatavadhani Dr. R Ganesh Kalidasa cannot be compared with anyone – he is totally unique, totally Indian. He is the ideal poet – on...
Day 4, Session 1 Shatavadhani Dr. R Ganesh and Dr. Nagavalli Nagaraj Dr. Ganesh started out by mentioning about the all-pervading influence of Vyasa, Valmiki, a...
Day 3 started on a bright note with Dr. Ganesh speaking about the beautiful qualities of the two great epics as well as Kalidasa's creation, followed by Shashi...
The second day of the Summer School jointly organized by Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth and Chinmaya International Foundation took the participants into a wonderful...
Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth and Chinmaya International Foundation have jointly organized a ten-day Summer School from 17 to 26 June, 2017 to realize the spirit of...
प्रेक्षा or Prekshaa is a Sanskrit word that means ‘seeing clearly.’ Other meanings include ‘intellect,’ ‘reflection,’ and ‘contemplation.’ The word prekṣā can...
Interview with Dr. R Ganesh –Dr. Arundhati Sundar and Arjun Bharadwaj Arjun Bharadwaj interviewed Shatavadhani Dr. R. Ganesh on the upcoming Summer School at Ch...
Purushottam Laxman Deshpande (1919-2000), popularly known by his initials, Pu La, was a polymath from Maharasthra. Apart from being a prolific writer, comedian,...
Documentary on the birthplace of Adi Shankaracharya.
A insightful talk in Sanskrit by Prof. Ashok Aklujkar on the river Sarasvati.
A rare interview of Dr M. Balamuralikrishna, the musical polymath, where he discusses voice culture.
A documentary on the legendary singer Bharat Ratna M S Subbulakshmi. Today, MS is synonymous with melody and devotion. v
Rare footage of Pandit Kumar Gandharva (1924-92) singing as a ten year old. He was born Shivaputra Siddharamayya Komkalimath and in his early years was giv...
In 1972, Satyajit Ray made a documentary film on Benode Behari Mukherjee, a painter who became blind in his fifties. The documentary features the life and works...
A documentary on Sir M. Visvesvaraya, an accomplished civil engineer and astute statesman who helped build the Mysore state.
Ramana Maharshi (30 December 1879 – 14 April 1950) was an Indian sage. Born Venkataraman Iyer, he left home in 1896 at the age of 16 and landed at Thiruvannamal...
A rare interview of Dr S. Srikantha Shastri, a historian par excellence. His magnum opus "Bharatiya Samskruti", a monograph in Kannada, is a must-read for all s...
A short documentary of Kuppalli Venkatappa Puttappa, the inimitable poet. He is popularly known as 'kuvempu'. His epic-poem Ramayana Darshanam was awarded...
A short documentary on K. Shivarama Karanth, a consummate polymath who brought laurels to Kannada literature. He received the prestigious Jnanapeeth&n...
A rare footage of Ramana Maharshi, a jeevan-mukta. Ramana was an exemplary sage who realized the ultimate truth through self-enquiry.
A short documentary of Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, one of the doyens of Kannada literature. Masti introduced the 'short story' genre to Kannada.
A freewheeling chat with modern-day polymath and Sanskrit scholar, Shataavadhaani Dr. R. Ganesh about sanatana dharma, religion and modernity, text and spi...
One of the greatest writers of modern Kannada literature, Padma Shri Dr S. L. Bhyrappa speaks about a wide range of issues including history...
In this discourse in Sanskrit, Shatavadhani Dr. R. Ganesh discusses the two great epics (or 'itihasa') of India, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. This pravacha...
In this instructive video Claude Alvares introduces the crucial work carried out by Dharmpal (1922-2006) in Indian History. Alvares shares his pe...
Dr. M. D. Srinivas traces the history of Indian mathematics for the past two millennia. He shows how mathematics in India evolved independently of European math...
Quite a few Marxist historians have put forth ludicrous arguments in the past claiming that Rama was not a deity before Tulasidas wrote the Ramcharit Manas...
ಶ್ರೀಮದ್ರಾಮಾಯಣದ ಉತ್ತರಕಾಂಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಬರುವ ಸೀತಾಪರಿತ್ಯಾಗವು ಹಿಂದಿನಿಂದಲೂ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಚರ್ಚೆಗೊಳಗಾಗಿರುವ ಭಾಗ. ಉತ್ತರಕಾಂಡವು ವಾಲ್ಮೀಕಿವಿರಚಿತವೋ ಅಲ್ಲವೋ ಎಂಬುದು ಕೂಡ ಅಷ್ಟೇ ಚರ್ಚಾಸ್ಪದವಾಗಿದೆ....
Dr. David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) has a deep interest in ayurveda, yoga, vedanta, Vedic astrology, and teaching of the Vedas. In this talk,...
Footage of a rare interview of D V Gundappa (in Kannada) by G P Rajarathnam. Here is the transcript: ರಾಜರತ್ನಂ: ತಾವು ಬರೆಯುವುದಕ್ಕೆ ಶುರು ಮಾಡಿದ್ದು ಯಾಕೆ ಅಂತ? ಡಿವ...
N Rangantha Sharma speaks about his past (in Sanskrit)
Claude Alvares speaks on farming in India.
Any sensible mind exploring the Sundarakanda ('the beautiful section') of the Ramayana invariably feels that it has been aptly named so. Not surprisingly, there...
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