A Fireside conversation at Vichaar Manthan’s Sustainable Narratives Conference 2020 With Achārya Vidyabhaskar (N.B. Achārya is the Sanskrit term for ‘scholar’) by Abhilasha Kakkar This fireside conversation with Acharya Vidyabhaskar explored the underlying notions of what it means to be ‘good’, from the paradigm of sustainable ethics. The aim was…

A Fireside conversation at Vichaar Manthan’s Sustainable Narratives Conference 2020 With Suhag Shukla, Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Hindu American Foundation. by Daksha Raval Shukla sought the views of a focus group consisting of four Republican-leaning and four Democrat-leaning Hindu Americans prior to this discussion. This conversation set out…

A Fireside conversation at Vichaar Manthan’s Sustainable Narratives Conference 2020 With Abhijit Iyer Mitra, senior fellow at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies by Kishan Chohan Abhijit Iyer Mitra opened by unequivocally stating that he prefers to take a pragmatic approach when discussing state governance systems and will not…

A Fireside conversation at Vichaar Manthan’s Sustainable Narratives Conference 2020 With Eric Lonergan, co-author of ‘Angrynomics’ by Dr Sachin Nandha In 2020, Eric Lonergan, a macro hedge fund manager and Mark Blyth, an economist at Brown University, co-authored a book titled ‘Angrynomics’ where they tried to make sense of why…

A Fireside conversation at Vichaar Manthan’s Sustainable Narratives Conference 2020 With Drishti Mae by Anusha Kasture In this raw and thought-provoking fireside conversation, Drishti Mae shares her extraordinary journey of religious identity through Islam, agnosticism, atheism and Hindu Dharma. …

A Fireside conversation at Vichaar Manthan’s Sustainable Narratives Conference 2020 With Kushal Mehra by Gaurang Bhatt This fireside conversation with Kushal Mehra aimed to shed some light on an intellectual movement that characteristically eludes clarity — postmodernism. The aim of this discussion was to address a few key questions about…

by Ravi Lakhani The evolution of human rights is a thread that can be traced to the origins of human civilisation. Intertwined with this history is the ever-present concept of duties. In this paper we will seek to understand the interdependency of the two concepts and ascertain if they can…

by Dinaay Sharma History/definition of postmodernism The narratives dominating the academic biosphere at present can be summarised under the umbrella term: postmodern. Postmodernism has been articulated as a departure from Modernist thought, generally distrusting the idea of an “objective” truth or reality. Professor Makarand Paranjape opened with remarks on the history and a…

by Ravi Lakhani This candid exploration of the nature of wealth creation and the future of sustainable wealth creation begins with Dr Jamie Whyte providing temporal context to the discussion: Nearly all human wealth has been generated in the past 200 years (see above). Whilst this growth has not been…