Indian Knowledge Systems and Today's World Crisis | Prof. Michel Danino | TEDxIIMCalcutta

TEDxIIMCalcutta talk by Prof. Michel Danino. Prof. Michel is a French-born Indian scholar of ancient Indian civilization, history and culture. He authored The Lost River: On the Trail of the Sarasvati and Indian Culture and India's Future. He has taught aspects of Indian civilization in several educational institutions; his lecture series at IIT Kanpur recorded over 200,000 views. Since 2011 he has been associated with IIT Gandhinagar, visiting professor and coordinating the Archaeological Sciences Centre. He has also been awarded Padma Shri in 2017 for his fantastic contribution to Literature and Education. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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This is a talk which is more than a year old, and am surprised to find that no one has even thanked the Honb'le Professor for this marvellous talk highlighting the importance and relevance of Indian Knowledge Systems for the modern day challenges, which is essentially the balancing weight by bringing in the aspect and idea of 'standard of life' along with the 'standard of living' and not only the latter which is unfortunately the indoctrinated gold standard of progress by the West influenced Education System. A Standard of Life is based on Universal Values making one understand the divinity within and around, to come to appreciate interconnectedness so as to live a balanced life knowing well about the human responsibilities to see Earth not as a resource, but as a Mother.