New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) Philosopher and author Acharya Prashant has shared a message for the youth protesting the NEET paper leak. The demand for action, he said, has been raised so loud that the protester himself is never examined. He said that he has no problem with the street, only with the blindness on it. The movement is not wrong, but its sequence has been inverted.Mourning the young lives lost during the agitation, he described the leaked paper as theft of the students’ years. He allowe…
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Panaji, July 16 (IANS) Philosopher and author Acharya Prashant, speaking at length on the NEET paper leak, the student suicides and the protests that have followed, has said the crisis is not merely an administrative lapse but “a sign of a far deeper crisis in our education system and our society.”Amid the ongoing student protests at Jantar Mantar and educationist Sonam Wangchuk’s eighteen-day fast, he urged Wangchuk to end his hunger strike and appealed to the government to open a dialogue.Spea…
London, July 10 (IANS) Philosopher and author Acharya Prashant and the noted cognitive neuroscientist Professor Steve Fleming held a public dialogue on self-knowledge, metacognition and consciousness at University College London (UCL) on the evening of July 9.Titled “Thinking About Thinking,” the session was the closing engagement of Acharya Prashant’s UK tour, which had earlier taken in the Cambridge Union, Oxford, the House of Lords, Queen Mary University of London, and the London School of Ec…
London, July 5 (IANS) PETA, the world’s largest animal rights organisation, invited noted philosopher and author Acharya Prashant for a special dialogue at PETA’s London office on Thursday.The fireside conversation with PETA Foundation President Mimi Bekhechi, held before a packed audience, explored the philosophical foundations of animal consciousness, veganism, and non-violence. Acharya Prashant said that compassion is not a virtue to be taught, but the very nature of the human being, and th…
London, July 1 (IANS) Philosopher Acharya Prashant and Professor Jonathan Birch held a public dialogue on animal consciousness and the environment at the London School of Economics on Friday evening. A packed Hong Kong Theatre broke into sustained applause as the session got underway.Titled “Animal Consciousness and the Environment: Insights from Science and Vedanta,” the dialogue drew students, researchers, faculty and members of the public.Professor Birch is Director of LSE’s Jeremy Coller Cen…
New Delhi, June 14 (IANS) Philosopher Acharya Prashant returned to India on Sunday after a landmark leg of his United Kingdom tour that took him to the platforms of Oxford University, Cambridge and the UK Parliament, where he placed the teachings of Vedanta and Indian Philosophy at the centre of global discourse on some of the defining questions of our times. At Delhi airport, hundreds of students and listeners who had converged from across the country gave him a reception that was as much a hom…
London, June 14 (IANS) Philosopher and author Acharya Prashant addressed a special gathering at the House of Lords in the British Parliament on June 12. Speaking as the Chief Guest on the theme “Indian Roots, Global Wings”, he presented the message of Indian philosophy and Vedanta in a global context.He said that true Indianness lies beyond culture, tradition, festivals, or cuisine, and that India’s real identity rests on her emphasis on self-knowledge pursued through self-enquiry, the fundament…
Oxford (UK), June 10 (IANS) In 1879, Professor Max Muller carried the Ishavasya Upanishad to the West, publishing its first English translation through Oxford University Press as the opening volume of the ‘Sacred Books of the East’. Nearly a century and a half later, an Indian philosopher has arrived at the same university to return the text to its living meaning.Muller was himself Oxford’s first Professor of Comparative Philology, and the entire Sacred Books of the East series was prepared …
London, June 5 (IANS) In a tour that has placed an Indian philosopher on the stage of some of Britain’s most prestigious intellectual and policy stages, Acharya Prashant has spent the past week carrying a climate message to capacity audiences at the Cambridge Union, in a one-on-one dialogue with a British peer of the realm, in public sessions that have drawn British audiences well beyond the Indian community, and across a sequence of upcoming engagements at Oxford, the London School of Economics…
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) Philosopher and author Acharya Prashant addressed a packed audience at the University of Cambridge on Friday in a fireside chat at the historic Cambridge Union, arguing that humanity’s gravest crises, climate change foremost among them, cannot be resolved by technology or policy alone because their root lies not in the external world but in the unexamined inner life of human beings. The audience response was overwhelming; seats were fully booked even before the day arriv…