Who Shapes India's Self-Understanding?

A thought-provoking conversation at the Indraprastha Cultural Festival brings together Manogna Sastry, Anil Sahasrabudhe, and Nitin Seth, moderated by Aparna Vijayan, to examine a deeper question beneath public discourse: how India understands itself. Moving beyond surface narratives, the panel explores how civilizational frameworks, educational institutions, and digital systems shape the categories through which reality is interpreted. From the legacy of historical disruption to the challenges of unexamined inherited lenses, the discussion connects knowledge systems to questions of strength, policy, and technological futures. The conversation ultimately asks whether India today defines itself on its own terms — or continues to think through frameworks it has yet to fully interrogate. The Hindi edition of Infinity Foundation’s path-breaking book, गंगा में विषधर, was also launched by the esteemed panel, along with the editor Anurag Sharma.Who Is Raising Your Children? - For Consciousness Theory - in the Ganga - Jati Caste - Battle For IIT's - of future Machines - heads of Ravana - support Infinity Foundation’s projects including the continuation of such episodes and the research we do:इनफिनिटी फ़ौंडेशन की परियोजनाओं को अनुदान देने के लिए व इस प्रकार के एपिसोड और हमारे द्वारा किये जाने वाले शोध को जारी रखने के लिए:

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Who Shapes India's Self-Understanding? is an episode from Kurukshetra by Rajiv Malhotra.

This episode is 01:13:13 long.

This episode was published on Apr 28, 2026.

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