Jan 15 -Landmark Chennai and Bengaluru tour on Sanskrit

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Dear CM Rasikas, Sahitya Believers, Erudite Scholars and Scientists,

This is a landmark opportunity for you to hear an extraordinary visitor who is one of the most gifted speakers
in the world, living in the USA, centered around a profound subject:

" The Battle for Sanskrit: Is Sanskrit dead or alive? Oppressive or Liberating? Dead or Alive"

His name is Rajiv Malhotra and he provides a profound vision ( Please see http://www.TheBattleForSanskrit.com )

Formats vary. Some are academic style panel discussions with top scholars in the field. Others are my solo lecture followed by extensive Q&A, or long workshops. Some are formal book launches by a prominent chief guest.

Bangalore Itinerary:

Topic: “The Importance of Swadeshi Indology” Host: Yuvabrigade Our School Auditorium, Banashankari, Bengaaluru
15th Friday Evening 6pm

Topic: “Reviving purva-paksha traditions in the modern global context”
Karnatak Samskrit University, Chamrajpet, Main Auditorium
16th Afternoon 2pm - 4pm

Topic: “Purva-Paksha of contemporary Indology”
Bharati Vidya Bhavan, Race Course Road,
16th Sat, Evening 6pm

Topic: “How to protect our Samskriti: The main debates in Indology”
Aksharam, Samskrita Bharati, Girinagar
17th Sun Morning 1030AM-12pm

Topic: “The kurukshetra of Sanskrit studies: Who will control the adhikara?”
Indian Institute of Sciences, Satish Dhawan Auditorium,
17th Sun Evening 4-15pm

Topic: “Insiders versus Outsiders in Sanskrit studies: Who are these players?”
Amrita College of Engineering, Kasavanahalli, Bengaluru
18th Mon, Afternoon 230pm-430pm

All day Workshop (need to pre-register): “How to be an Intellectual Kshatriya and join the Home Team”
Hotel Sanman Gardenia, Near Ashoka Pillar, Jayanagar, Bengaluru
19th Tue 9am-6pm
To register please contact Pallavi: 9945005694

Jan 24: Book launch at Art of Living headquarters. (Afternoon – time to be finalized)

Chennai:

Fri 22: KSRI (Sanskrit college, Mylapore) 11AM - 1230pm
Justice Ranganathan Endowment Lecture
Topic: " Sanskrit Studies & The Global Perspectives "

Fri 22: IIT-Madras CLT Hall, 330pm-5pm
Topic: "Critiquing Contemporary Indology Studies"

Sat 23: Bharati Vidya Bhavan, Mylapore 9 am-12pm
Topic: “Samanvaya in Samskrit, Samskrita & Indian Languages"

Sat 23: Samskrita Bharati, host
Venue: RSS Karyalayaa Chetput 1pm-3pm
Topic: “Nurturing & Safeguarding our Samskriti & Samskrit”

Sat 23: Ramakrishna Math Mylapore 430pm-630pm
Topic: “Harmony of Paramarthika & Vyavaharika in Samskrit”

Mumbai:

27 Jan: Think India. IIT-Bombay Convocation Hall. 6.30 - 8.30 PM
28 Jan: Samskrita Bharati. Savarkar Auditorium Shivaji Park, Dadar.7.30 - 9.30 PM
29 Jan: Tata Institute of Social Sciences Students Union. TISS Chembur. 6.30 - 8.30 PM
30 Jan: Chinmaya Mission. Welingkar, Matunga. 6.30 - 9.00 PM

"Sarve Bhavantu Sukinaha"
-Nirvana

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I attended the Rajiv Malhotra lecture at SamskritaBharati. Nearly two hundred people assembled to hear the torchbearer of Sanatana Dharma Defender tradition in that sacred space propagating Sanskrit so wonderfully all over the world in a no-nonsense manner.

At the end, Rajiv-ji signed his book for everyone :The Battle for Sanskrit. He explained how Sanskrit and Bharatiya Samskriti cannot be separated in this effort to prevent hijacking and methodic destruction of our traditions by western Indologists. He cautioned that Narayana murthy has donated millions of dollars for western scholars to translate Sanskrit classics with the underlying agenda of extracting material from what they consider essentially a dead classical tradition.

It seems, until Rajiv met and briefed him, even Sringeri Swamiji had been made to almost sign up for handing over the propagation of Adi Shankara traditions to some dubious western scholars under some "benign" pretext.

The book gives exhaustive material and promises to be great reading!

Do attend the sessions in Bangalore and Chennai to get a first-hand sense of what's Rajiv's life work.

The table shown gives Rajiv"s response to the demonisation of Sanskrit by influential western scholars.

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Requesting all Rasikas, who through CM and its great composers, still carry a yen for Sanskrit,
please attend at least one of his lectures!

You will be witnessing History being made!

17th Sun Evening 5:30
Chief Guests: Mohandas Pai and Roddam Narasimha will launch the book and discuss it
Indian Institute of Sciences, Satish Dhawan Auditorium, Bengaluru
Lecture topic: “The kurukshetra of Sanskrit studies: Who will control the adhikara?”

Those in Chennai please mark your calendars as provided in the earlier schedule.

Please spread the word.