Events
Day 1 : August 5th, 2022 (Friday)
For LiveStream : https://youtu.be/W08tDRaPgKU
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Inauguration Ceremony
A.Namassivayam
Home Minister, Puducherry
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Keynote Address
K Annamalai
President, BJP Tamil Nadu. Former IPS Officer.
6:00 PM - 6:30 PM
SMaRT - Swarajya Awards
6:30 PM - 6:45 PM
Dr. Ambedkar on National Unity
Ma Venkatesan
Chairman, National Commission for
Safai Karamcharis, Govt. of India
6:45 PM - 7:15 PM
Auroville : India's Divine Gift to the World
Dr. Jayanti Ravi
Secretary, Auroville Foundation
7:15 PM - 8:00 PM
Songs of our freedom: Muktigatha
Padmashree Malini Awasthi
Renowned Folk Singer
Day 2 : August 6th, 2022 (Saturday)
For LiveStream : https://youtu.be/F_WeHQsT_6g
9:30 AM - 10:05 AM
Bringing our Gods Home
S. Vijay Kumar
Co-founder India Pride Project, Author ‘The Idol Thief’
10:10 AM - 10:45 AM
Our History Wars and National Identity
Dr. Swapan Dasgupta
Former Member of Parliament
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Revisiting the Past to Narrowing the Literary Errors: What the Material Culture Says
Dr. Sanjay Kumar Manjul
Joint Director General, Archaeological Survey of India.
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Revisiting the Past to Narrowing the Literary Errors: What Faunal Records Say
Prof. Vijay Sathe
Archaezoologist, Former Professor.
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Revisiting the Past to Narrowing the Literary Errors: DNA Analysis and Human and Animal Migration
Dr. Niraj Rai
Scientist, Ancient DNA Lab, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences.
Lunch Break
01:45 PM - 02:05 PM
India at 75: The Necessity and the Limits of Good News
DV Sridharan
Author
02:05 PM - 02:25 PM
Antiquity and Continuity of Bharatiya Civilisation
Manoshi Sinha
Author
02:25 PM - 02:45 PM
Think Global but Act Local in the Field of Yoga
Dr. Jayaraman Mahadevan
Director of the Textual Research Division, Indica Yoga
02:45 PM - 03:20 PM
Sri Aurobindo's Vision of Sanatana Dharma and His Five Dreams For New India
Diganta Biswa Sarma
Translator of Sri Aurobindo’s Works,
Sahitya Akademi Awardee.
03:25 PM - 04:00 PM
The Colonised Mind at 75
Kanchan Gupta
Senior Adviser, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting.
04:00 PM - 04:35 PM
India at 75: The Need for Judicial Reforms
Abhijit Iyer Mitra
Senior Fellow, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies.
04:40 PM - 05:15 PM
Sri Aurobindo and Philosophy
Dr. Pariksith Singh
Educator and Write
(in conversation with Aravindan Neelakandan)
Tea Break
05:30 PM - 06:05 PM
Freedom of Expression in India at 75
Prof. Anand Ranganathan
Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University. Author, columnist.
(in conversation with Alo Pal)
06:10 PM - 06:45 PM
India’s Real Economy
Prof. Shamika Ravi
Economist, Professor,
Vice President, Observer Research Foundation
06:45 PM - 07:20 PM
Spirit of Freedom and Holistic National Renaissance:Subramaniyam Bharati's Literary Universe
Jataayu
Tamizh Scholar
Day 3 : August 7th, 2022 (Sunday)
For LiveStream : https://youtu.be/B7XXwzMfy0I
09:30 AM - 10:05 AM
Reading Sri Aurobindo
Gautam Chikermane
Vice President, Observer Research Foundation. Author.
10:10 AM - 10:45 AM
Reading Sri Aurobindo
Devdip Ganguli
Faculty Member,
Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education.
10:45 AM - 11:20 AM
Social Media in India, for India and the World
Aprameya Radhakrishnan
Co-founder, Koo
11:25 AM - 12:00 PM
Media and Free Speech Constraints
Rahul Shivshankar
Editor-in-Chief, Times Now
Lunch Break
01:30 PM - 02:05 PM
What Does the Future Portend for Bharat:An Attempt At Crystal Gazing
J Sai Deepak
Counsel, Supreme Court. Author.
(in conversation with Anand Ranganathan)
02:10 PM - 02:45 PM
The Indian Economy at 75
Prasenjit Basu
Economist, author of Asia Reborn
02:45 PM - 03:20 PM
India’s Most Fearless 3
Shiv Aroor
Journalist, Author.
(in conversation with Abhijit Iyer Mitra)
03:25 PM - 04:00 PM
Trends and Practices in Indian Historiography
Prof. Saumya Dey
Mentor and Professor at Rashtram School of Public Leadership
04:00 PM - 04:35 PM
Swaraj at 75: What to Celebrate and Why
Prafulla Ketkar
Editor, Organizer Weekly.
04:40 PM - 05:15 PM
Indian Historiography at 75
Sandeep Balakrishnan
Founder and Chief Editor, The Dharma Dispatch.
Author.
Tea Break
05:30 PM - 06:05 PM
Sri Aurobindo as a Phililogist
Prof. Sampadananda Mishra
Professor at Rashtram School of Public Leadership.
Sanskrit scholar.
06:10 PM - 06:45 PM
Literature as Experiencing Another Life
Dr. Sridhar Vembu
CEO, Zoho
06:45 PM - 07:20 PM
The Indian Military: From 75 to 100
Lt. Gen. Satish Dua
Retired Chief of Integrated Defense Staff,
Planned & Executed the Surgical Strikes
07:25 PM - 08:00 PM
Harmony of Science and Art in Maharshi Sri Aurobindo and Mahakavi Bharathi in the Context of Tamizh Literature
Aravindan Neelakandan
Author
