| # | 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 and Dr. Rohitash Chandra | Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, University of New South Wales, Sydney | tharun.reddy@ece.iitr.ac.in, rohitash.chandra@unsw.edu.au |
| 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 |