Indian Deities Worshipped in Japan

Exploring Indian Civilization by Michel Danino

Very extensive set of 16 lectures on most aspects (archaeology, architecture, philosophy, science and technology, arts, economy and ethics) of Indian civilization given by Michel Danino at IIT Kanpur. These are really amazing lectures and highly recommended for anyone interested in knowing about ancient Indian civilization and how it developed, what are its main characteristics, how it influenced both the far East and the West.

Foundations of Indian Culture by R. Ganesh

For a quite some time I have been searching for some lucid material on the foundations of Indian culture, the so called sanatan dharma, that can be understood by everyone. Finally, I found these 18 hours lectures by R. Ganesh which are amazing, because they are very easy to understand and at the same time covers most aspects of the foundations of sanatan dharam in an intimate setting (conversationally).

Gandhi and the Political Enlightenment – Akeel Bilgrami

Noam Chomsky and Lawrence Krauss

Pawan Gupta on Education (Hindi)

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Other parts are available on the same channel.

Ravindra Sharma on Indian Perspective of Education (Hindi)

Economic of Happiness – Why Localisation

The success of nonviolent civil resistance

From Daily Kos:

as university professor and researcher Erica Chenoweth explains in the following TED video…

She finds (through her research) that when an average 3.5 percent of any given population engages in non-violent (civil) resistance on a sustained basis, “no single campaign failed.”  She also finds that “every single campaign that surpassed that 3.5 percent was a non-violent one.”  She goes on to say that “In fact, the non-violent campaigns were on average four times larger than the average violent campaign, and they were often much more inclusive and representative in terms of gender, age, race, political party, class, and the urban role distinction.  Civil resistance allows people of all different levels of physical ability to participate.  This could include the elderly, people with disabilities, women, children, and anyone else who wants to.  If you think about it, everyone is born with a natural physical ability to resist non-violently…”

Ajai Sahni on India’s Faultlines

Very interesting talk by Dr. Ajai Sahni on India’s current internal security issues and faultlines, and how well it is prepared to tackle those problems.