May 11 2024 to May 11 2024 6:30 p.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

In the session, Dr Sengupta will discuss the relevance of a relatively lesser-known but fundamental text of the Advaita Vedanta School of Hinduism called the Ashtavakra Gita at a time of global conflict and focus on the personal experience of the transformative and redeeming power of the text amidst the turmoil, grief, and uncertainty that is the fate of human life. 

Speaker

Hindol Sengupta Author & Historian

Dr. Hindol Sengupta is a multiple award-winning historian and author of 12 books. He won the Wilbur Award given by the Religion Communicators Council of America for Being Hindu in 2018, and the Valley of Words prize for Best Nonfiction for The Man Who Saved India also in 2018. The Kalinga Literature Festival prize for Best Biography for Sing, Dance and Pray in 2022. He was shortlisted for the Hayek Prize given by the Manhattan Institute in memory of the Nobel laureate economist F. A. Hayek for Recasting India. He won the PSF prize for public service through writing in 2015. He was trained as a filmmaker at the Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, and in history, and international relations as a Chevening Scholar at Oxford, and in business and finance as a Knight Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University. He has a doctorate in international relations from the Geneva School of Diplomacy. He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.