Dec 02 2025 to Dec 02 2025 6:30 p.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

In the book ‘Awakening Beauty’, Jinan K.B. presents a radical inquiry forged over three decades of living with non-literate artisans and observing children. He reveals how the spontaneous grace with which a potter’s daughter cuts a perfect circle from clay is the same intelligence that allows a child to create with unselfconscious wholeness. This is not taught; it is our biological inheritance. Yet, this innate capacity is systematically destroyed by an education system that replaces direct sensory engagement with abstraction, prizes the ego of the individual creator over the authenticity of the act, and colonizes our sensibility with external rules.

We live in a world starved of beauty, not because it is scarce, but because we have been educated out of our innate capacity to perceive it. Modernity has severed us from a fundamental truth: beauty is not a cultural concept or an intellectual luxury; it is a biological imperative, a choiceless act of being that arises from our deepest evolutionary makeup – the reason for the formation of cultures rooted in authenticity.

Jinan posits beauty as the essential triad of being: the Why (Value), the What (Cognition), and the How (Beauty). When this triad is whole, our actions are inherently sustainable, meaningful, and graceful. The current civilizational crisis—ecological, social, and spiritual—is a direct result of its fragmentation.

The path forward requires a profound un-learning. It is a shift from a life, mediated by reading, thinking, and reasoning about the world, to a life rooted in sensing, feeling, and being. It is a move from knowledge, which is always second-hand, to knowing, which is direct and embodied. This is not a return to primitivism, but an evolution towards a more authentic human consciousness, especially, required in the threat posed by AI. Jinan invites us to this civilizational healing to be in the beautiful communion with life itself.

Speakers

Jinan K B
Author
Jinan K. B is a researcher, educator, and a ‘seer’ exploring the biological intelligence underlying beauty, cognition, and values. For over three decades, he has worked across education, design, and indigenous knowing systems to reveal how life learns, creates, and knows naturally—without instruction or ideology. Living with non-literate artisans transformed his understanding of intelligence as a sensory, embodied participation with the world — a “knowing by being.”

Through initiatives such as Being in Beauty, Do-Nothing Parenting, and Natural Cognition Retreats, Jinan invites people to reclaim their innate aesthetic and cognitive wholeness. His work exposes how education and ego fracture this natural intelligence and explores beauty’s potential for civilizational healing.

He is currently developing a series of See Through Books— to help readers see through the book into the real world. Each title serves as an entry point into crucial themes like knowledge, childhood, parenting, illiteracy, and language, guiding readers back to the senses, the body, and the living world as the true ground of understanding and to use language consciously, carefully, and wisely.

jinankb.in , awakeningbeauty.org, nondoing.in , wombwisdom.in , kumbham.org

Prem Chandavarkar
Managing Partner, CnT Architects
Prem Chandavarkar is the Managing Partner of CnT Architects, a legacy practice with a history dating back to being Bengaluru’s first architectural firm.

He is a former Executive Director of Srishti Manipal Institute of Art Design & Technology, is an academic advisor and guest faculty at Indian and international colleges of architecture, and has served on the board of The Architecture, Culture & Spirituality Forum, USA.

He likes to introduce himself as an architect who is easily distracted by other subjects and writes lectures, and blogs on architecture, urbanism, philosophy, education, environment, art, spirituality, and cultural studies.