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Summary Number of Sessions: 8 Principal Teacher: Mr. Mahesh Shetti, Dr. Kurush Dalal and Mr. Raamesh G R Medium: English About the course: The projectile, whether as a weapon of war or hunting, marks a critical stage in the evolutionmof genus Homo, and especially into our species Homo sapiens. While tool use is documented among birds, and […]
Summary Number of Sessions: 10 Resource Person: Dr. Kanad Sinha Medium: English Topics to be covered 1. Adiparvan: The Origin, Birth, and Marriage Stories in the Mahabharata 2. Sabhaparvan: Rajasuya and the Dice Games 3. Aranyakaparvan: Forest and Forest Dwellers in Indian Epics 4. Virataparvan: Cattle Raids and Mahabharata Economy 5. Udyogaparvan: Debates about War and Peace […]
Summary Principal Teacher: Mr. Hemant Rajopadhye Medium – English Description The Indian subcontinent, which is widely regarded as a melting pot of various ethnicities, religious faiths, sects and subjects, has always been a hotbed of the conflicts arising from the hundreds of religious, sectarian identities. On this backdrop, it is a dire need that the religions and […]
Summary Principal Teachers: Dr. Kurush Dalal with Prof Dr. Nilufer Bharucha Medium: English Syllabus: Who are the Zoroastrians? What is their Geography? A basic history of the Achaemenid, Parthian and Sassanian Empires of Ancient Persia. What are the basic tenets and teachings of Zoroastrianism? The evolution of Zoroastrianism over the Ages. Who are the Parsis […]
Summary Resource Person: Dr. Bharati Jagannathan Medium: English A K Ramanujan’s thesis on Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translation, was one of the seminal works presented at the University of Pittsburg in 1987. In this essay, he collated the various tellings of Ramayanas spread across the entire Asian continent. In this two-part lecture […]
Summary Principal Teacher: Dr. Mayank Vahia, School of Mathematical sciences, NMIMS Medium: English Were ancient people witness to astronomical episodes? What do we know about astronomy in the past? What tools did our ancestors use to study the stars? About the Course Starting with the basic concepts and evolution of Archaeo-astronomy in India, this five-part course will […]
Syllabus– – Introduction to the course and definition. – Concepts And dating methods. – Geology and Human History. -Human Evolution. – Olduvan and Acheulian tools – Middle and Upper Paleolithic tools -Mesolithic and Neolithic Ages. About the Speaker Kurush F Dalal has a BA in Ancient Indian History and History from the University of Mumbai), […]
The Protohistoric period in the Indian Sub-continent is one of the most interesting and formative periods of our past. This is the period where we went from sedentism to civilisation. This is the period where we learnt how to domesticate animals and plants, to intensively exploit the land around us, to trade over long distances […]
Summary Dates: 8th January to 9th January, 2021 Principal Teacher: Dr. G Manoja Medium: English Description: Join the course and get a hang of the Gunjala script Syllabus: Reviewing script in the present scenario: Academics and Society. Dimensions of Linguistics Politics: Local and Universal Responses.