Rajiv Malhotra is an eminent author, speaker, thinker and public intellectual of Indian descent. He was born in Ludhiana. At the time of the partition, his family moved from Lahore to Ludhiana, subsequently settling in New Delhi. He attended St. Stephen's College in Delhi. Later he studied physics at the University of North Carolina and computer science at the University of Syracuse. He has been living in the United States for about 52 years.
He was trained initially as a physicist, and then as a computer scientist, specializing in artificial intelligence in the 1970s. After a successful corporate career in the United States, he became an entrepreneur and founded and ran many IT companies in 20 countries. He exited all for-profit activities in the early 1990s. As the founder of his non-profit Infinity Foundation (infinityfoundation.com) in Princeton, he has, on a full-time basis, been researching civilizations from a historical, social sciences and mind sciences perspective.
He has authored many best-selling books. The Infinity Foundation has also published a 14-volume series on the history of Indian science and technology.
To fully appreciate his work, his best-selling books are of importance, including the following:
Snakes in the Ganga
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds
Sanskrit Non-Translatables: The Importance of Sanskritizing English
The Battle for Sanskrit: Is Sanskrit Political or Sacred, Oppressive or Liberating, Dead or Alive?
Indra’s Net: Defending Hinduism’s Philosophical Unity
Academic Hinduphobia: A Critique of Wendy Doniger’s Erotic School of Indology
Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism
Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Fault lines
A number of more books are in the pipeline.
He also serves as chairman of the board of governors of the Center for Indic Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and is on the advisory board of the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla.
The Infinity Foundation has given more than 400 grants for research, education and community work, including strategic grants to major US universities in support of pioneering programs. In India, the foundation has funded and organized some of the earliest and largest international conferences on topics such as Indian mind sciences and comparative religion.
The foundation’s affiliate, Infinity Foundation India regularly conducts swadeshi Indology conferences to spread its ideas through scholarly publications, video series, and e-learning courses. It has also been translating many of Rajiv’s books, dubbing and subtitling his popular videos into Indian languages, and developing animated videos to explain his major key concepts.
His Twitter handle is @RajivMessage
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Shakil Chaudhary is an alumnus of Government College, Lahore. Subsequently, he studied international relations at Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad and media at the London School of Economics. He has worked for several English-language newspapers. He has written a critically acclaimed book, Handbook of Functional English (Ferozsons), for the benefit of those who wish to improve their English skills. He has conducted many workshops on communication, writing and critical thinking skills. He is a former president of the Progressive Writers Association, Islamabad (2021-2022).
If you want to see his most popular videos, here are the links to them.
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