Dear and respected friends,

Our best regards and warm greetings to you.

The same for family, friends, and fellow seekers.

We hope this finds you well. 

We invite you to kindly join us in our Vishwaneedam Swadhyaya Sahachakra Chitta Ranjan Centenary Memorial Lecture on ““Creative Learning , Artificial Intelligence and Soulful Transformations : Chitta Ranjan and Creative Planetary Futures” by Rowan Moses Gnaniah.

 We are grateful to you for your kind interest and participation.

Looking forward to hearing from you and with regards,

Sincerely Yours

 Ananta, Randhir and Minati

 Time:  March 17, 2024; 9 to 10 PM IST

Topic: “Creative Learning , Artificial Intelligence and Soulful Transformations : Chitta Ranjan and Creative Planetary Futures.”

Speaker: Rowan Moses, Scholar and Writer, Thiruvanthapuram & Chennai

Moderator: Professor Ananta Kumar Giri, Vishwaneedam Center for Asian Blossoming and Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai

Convener –  Randhir Kumar Gautam, Executive co-nurturer of Vishwaneedam Centre for Asian Blossoming and Gandhian School of Democracy and Socialism, ITM University, Gwalior

Vote and Songs of Thanks Mrs. Minati Pradhan, Vishwaneedam Centre for Asian Blossoming

About the Speaker

Rowan Moses Gnaniah, a distinguished professional with a multifaceted background in media design, AI, and interdisciplinary research, possesses a deep academic foundation from the University of Waterloo and the University of Madras. Specializing in English Studies, Experimental Digital Media, and Comparative Religious Studies, his expertise extends to Rhetoric, Critical Design methods, and Adaptation Studies gained during his tenure as a Teaching Assistant at UWaterloo International. Rowan's approach integrates critical thinking and creative expression, aiming to advance knowledge and innovation across the fields of the philosophy of technology, critical thinking, spirituality and religion in the public sphere and empathy and love as political forces for impactful societal contributions.

About Chitta Ranjan Das

Chitta Ranajn Das is a creative seeker and transformative thinker and activist of our times who has written and worked on many aspects of human lives—education, philosophy, literate and integral human development and social transformation. Das was born on 3rd October, 1923 in Bagalpur in the undivided district of Cuttack in Odisha, India and left his mortal body on January 16, 2011. Das is known to many of his friends, co-travelers and concerned publics at large in Odisha and India as Chitta Bhai. Chitta Bhai has initiated many creative experiments. He founded Jeevana Vidyalya—School for Life—in Champattimunda in the 1950s. He was a pioneer in the integral education movement of Odisha and translated major works of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother to Odia.  He nurtured both Agragamee,  Sikshadandhan and Nava Pallava— creative efforts in education and tribal development in Odisha. He wrote and translated around 250 books, a majority of them being in Odia and some of these in English.

Swadhyaya Sahachakra (Co-Learning Circles of Self and Mutual Studies)

Swadhyaya Sahachakra (Co-Learning Circles of Self and Mutual Studies) is an initiative of studying and learning together self, culture, societies and the world. Friends associated with this are eager to walk and meditate with the new horizons of thinking and new movements of social and cultural change at work in our contemporary world. We study seekers such as Sri Aurobindo, Gandhi, Chitta Ranjan Das (a seeker and creative thinker from Odisha), and many others from around the world. We also present our own writings and reflect upon our creativity together. We also invite seekers from different fields of life to share with us their lives, visions, sadhana and struggles for creating a world of beauty, dignity and dialogues

Topic: “Creative Learning , Artificial Intelligence and Soulful Transformations : Chitta Ranjan and Creative Planetary Futures”
Time: Mar 17, 2024 09:00 PM India

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