Hindol Sengupta

A GLIMPSE INTO THE INSPIRATIONAL JOURNEY OF SRILA PRABHUPADA

July 15, 2022

There was nothing in the old Hindu monk’s life till his ship reached New York in 1965, which suggested that he might have such influence. In fact, by all counts, Abhay Charan De, before he turned to monastic life and was given the name Bhaktivedanta Swami, had led a modest...

Reimagining India’s nutrition paradigm

September 29, 2021

There are some fundamental issues that need to be understood about the nutrition paradigm in India. First, two fundamental driving forces for good, and growth is the development and participation of women in the workforce and national decision-making, and the healthy progress of a young population, boys, and girls. Then,...

No child’s play: India will be the next global destination for toy making

February 4, 2021

It was while taking classes in the history of the trade of materials and objects at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum that I first learnt of the toys of the Indus Valley Civilisation. One of them was a little figurine cart, something that a child might pull with a string. I remember...

Why India’s AI rollout could be a global role model

October 10, 2020

According to Oxford Insights, AI and related technologies are likely to contribute $15 trillion to the global economy by 2030. India is ranked 17th in a list of 194 countries in the Oxford Insights survey in 2019 in government readiness to embrace AI.In my last essay for this paper, written...