| # | Session Title | Organizers | Affiliation | Contact Email |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Bhagavad-gītā and Leadership Development | Dr. Sumanta Rudra and Mr. Shubash Marathe | Dean Academics and trustee, Bhakti Vedanta Research Centre, India and Research Scholar; Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India | Sumanta Rudra@gmail.com; ptd2316@students.iitmandi.ac.in |
| 2 | Bhagavad Gita and Mental Health: Integrating Ancient Wisdom with Contemporary Psychological Science | Dr. Ashish Gupta and Vinay Gupta | Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT), Bhopal; Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | ashishg@manit.ac.in; guptak@iitk.ac.in |
| 3 | Linguistic, Computational, and Aesthetic Perspectives on the Bhagavad Gītā | Dr. Pawan Goyal, Dr. Ashish Gupta and Dr. Jivnesh Sandhan | Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur; Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, MANIT Bhopal; Postdoctoral researcher, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University | pawang@cse.iitkgp.ac.in; ashishg@manit.ac.in; jivnesh@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp |
| 4 | The Bhagavad-Gītā and Sustainability: An Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) Perspective | Dr. Sumanta Rudra and Punit Rajendrakumar Bhalla | Dean Academics and trustee, Bhaktivedanta Research Centre, India; Ph.D. Scholar, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi | Sumanta Rudra@gmail.com; ud23004@students.iitmandi.ac.in |
| 5 | Bhagavad Gita and Social Wellbeing | Dr. Akhaya Kumar Nayak | Indian Institute of Management Indore | aknayak@iimidr.ac.in |
| 6 | Bhagavad Gita and Science | Sai Kiran Gannamraju, Kiran Kumar Bhuvanagiri and Pandu Santhoju | Indian Knowledge System and Mental Health Applications (IKSMHA) Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Kamand, Mandi 175 005, India | ptd2313@students.iitmandi.ac.in; ptd2314@students.iitmandi.ac.in; d22163@students.iitmandi.ac.in |
| 7 | Re-reading Indian Cosmology Today: Purāṇic and Siddhāntic Perspectives in Dialogue with Modern Science | Venketeswara R. Pai and Dr. Sumanta Rudra | Bhaktivedanta Research Centre (BRC), India; Dean Academics and trustee, Bhaktivedanta Research Centre, India | Sumanta Rudra@gmail.com |
| 8 | Bhagavad Gita and Cognitive Biomarkers | Dr. Tharun Kumar Reddy Bollu, Dr. Rohitash Chandra and Dr. Ram Bilas Pachori | Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee; University of New South Wales, Sydney; Institute Chair Professor & Professor (HAG), IIT Indore | tharun.reddy@ece.iitr.ac.in; rohitash.chandra@unsw.edu.au; pachori@iiti.ac.in |
| 9 | The Bhagavad-gītā and Personality Development | Dr. Ranjan Kumar Behera and Dr. Abhishek Jaiswal | Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Patna; Postdoctoral Fellow, Umeå University, Sweden | rkb@iitp.ac.in; abhijais@iitk.ac.in |
| 10 | Research Program on Past Life Memories (PLMs) and Reincarnation (Punar Janma) | Prof. Kunal Mooley and Prof. Laxmidhar Behera | Assistant Professor, Department of Space, Planetary & Astronomical Sciences & Engineering, IIT Kanpur; Director, IIT Mandi Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering (on leave) IIT Kanpur | kmooley@iitk.ac.in; lbehera@iitk.ac.in |
| 11 | Music Beyond Performance: Muthuswami Dikshitar and the Embodied Knowledge of Conscious Practice | Dr. P. Nirmal Harish and Dr. B. Lakshmi Surya Teja | Assistant Professor, IKSHMA CENTRE, IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh; Assistant Professor, Gitam, University, Vishakapatinam | nirmal@iitmandi.ac.in; lbhavara@gitam.edu |
| 12 | Sound, Movement, and Awareness: Mind–Body Practices in Indian Music and Dance | Dr. P. Nirmal Harish | Assistant Professor, IKSHMA CENTRE, IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh | nirmal@iitmandi.ac.in |
| 13 | IKS-Infused Innovation: Startups and Incubation Ecosystems for Indian Knowledge Systems | Prof. Dipankar Deb | Faculty In-charge & Director (Incubation) IIT Mandi Catalyst, IIT Mandi | dipankar@iitmandi.ac.in |
| 14 | Theory of Quantum Emotion (TQE): Quantum Emotion: Exploring Coherence in Mind, Brain, Consciousness and Digital Identity | Dr. Mahesh Sakharam Lohar | Founder & Chairman – I Smart Life Foundation (ISLF) PhD. (Organizational Consciousness, SPPU Pune) | mindlab42@gmail.com |
| 15 | Holism in Ayurveda: A Whole-System Approach Integrating Body, Mind, and Consciousness from Classical Wisdom to Clinical Practice | Dr Amrita Sharma and Dr Anukul Deb Goswami | Consultant and Assistant Professor Department of Dravyaguna, Dayanand Ayurvedic College, Punjab; Advisor, NHS Musculoskeletal Services. Chairman, Indian Metaphysical Society, Manchester UK. | dramritasharma@gmail.com; akdgoswami@googlemail.com |