Dr. Bijoy Misra

Dr. Bijoy Misra serves as the President of India Discovery Center and leads the efforts of content creation and organizing the IDC activities. He is a physicist and has taught in the local area schools. He helps run the South Asia Poets of New England group. He is a Sanskrit scholar and promotes Sanskrit studies in various institutions. He is currently an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of South Asian Studies at Harvard University.

Abstract:

The lecture is a survey of the work of ten personalities who can be considered as a continuum of Indian thinking fr0m 2000 BC to the modern times. The personalities analyzed are: Yājñavalkya, Shri Krishna, Mahāvīra, Kautalya, Pāṇini, Vālmiki, Vyāsa, Śaṅkara and Kabira.