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A talk on ‘Netaji's Contribution to the Freedom Moment’ by Dr. Kalyan De

On 10 February 2017, Dr. Kalyan De, a US-based Netaji enthusiast and engineer by profession, delivered a refreshingly insightful talk on Netaji Subash Chandra Bose’s inimitable contribution to India’s freedom struggle. Quoting extensively fr...

February 10, 2018
Tags: Historical and Civilisational Studies , Congress , Jawaharlal Nehru , Gandhi , Netaji Subash Chandra Bose , India’s freedom movement
Talk on Netaji's Contribution to the Freedom Moment

The VIF arranged a talk on the contributions towards India’s independence made by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. The talk was delivered by US-based Dr Kalyan De, an engineer by profession and an authority on India’s freedom struggle. Quoting e...

February 10, 2017
Tags: Historical and Civilisational Studies , Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose , Freedom Moment , Quit India Movement
Interaction with Prof. Daya Thussu on Leveraging India’s Soft Power

‘Soft Power’, a term coined by Joseph Nye in the late 1980s, has been gaining increasing salience in foreign policy debates the world over. While in India, the use of soft power as part of Indian diplomacy had begun even before the term was ...

August 19, 2016
Tags: Historical and Civilisational Studies , India’s soft power , Daya Thussu
Buddhism as a Science: A Talk by Robert Thurman

Robert Thurman, an internationally acclaimed American Buddhist scholar specializing in Asiatic religions, especially Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, also recognized as one of the twenty-five most influential Americans of 1997 by Time, visited the Vivekan...

April 05, 2016
Tags: Historical and Civilisational Studies , Conflict Avoidance , Global Hindu-Buddhist Initiative , Buddhism as a Science , Robert Thurman
Talk on Towards A New Historiography for Ancient India

Dr Navratna S Rajaram, the Boston-based Indian mathematician with a keen interest in ancient Indian history, delivered a talk on ‘Towards a New Historiography for Ancient India’ at the VIF on February 21, 2014. Debunking the Aryan Invasi...

February 21, 2013
Tags: Historical and Civilisational Studies , Panel Discussion , ancient India , Aryan Invasion Theory , Harappan architecture
Arunachal has world’s largest Shivlingam

Alluding to a prophecy in the Shiv Puran, former Arunachal MP and Congress leader Kiren Rijuju on Saturday said that the world’s largest Shivlingam has been discovered in the state. “The discovery of more than 22 feet tall lingam was made...

March 06, 2010
Tags: Historical and Civilisational Studies , Arunachal , Land of Rising Sun , Chinese claim
4th Netaji Subhash Memorial Lecture

The fourth in the Annual Netaji Subhash Memorial lecture series on Netaji’s birth anniversary – January 23 was organized at FICCI on 23 Jan 2010 by Netaji Subhash Bose – INA Trust with active support from Vivekananda International Found...

January 23, 2010
Tags: Historical and Civilisational Studies , Netaji Subhash Memorial Lecture
Netaji and INA: Key Catalysts of India’s Freedom

A presentation by Major Gen G D Bakshi, Deputy Director (Research), VIF

Major Gen G D Bakshi deliberated on ‘Netaji and Indian National Army(INA): Key catalysts of India’s freedom’ with a presentation on 22nd January 2010, the ...

January 22, 2010
Tags: Historical and Civilisational Studies , Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose , India’s Freedom , Indian National Army
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