Accepted Special Sessions

List of Accepted Special Sessions

Accepted Special Sessions — MBCC 2026
# 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