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Speaker:   Avatans Kumar https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/author/avatans-kumar/ Avatans holds graduate degrees in Linguistics from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and MBA from Webster University. Avatans has keen interest in topics involving Indian Intellectual Tradition, history, and current affairs. He has taught undergraduate level linguistics and Hindi classes at JNU and UIUC respectively. Avatans is the President and National Convenor of INDICA, Inc., the US subsidiary of Indic Academy.  Topic: Hinduphobia in American Academia and Media : protests and objections are gaining steam. Date/Venue:     March Ist, 2020  (Sun)  at Cerritos Library  1:30 PM - 3 PM @ Skyline Room, Cerritos Public Library, 18025 Bloomfield Ave, Cerritos, CA, 90703 Subject:    Hinduphobia in the society, media, and academia has more that 200-year old legacy in the West. It is, like...

Speaker:   Professor (Emeritus)  Shive  K. Chaturvedi Topic: Vedic Dharmic Gyana-Vigyana Versus Contemporary Scientific Paradigms: A journey through some foundational ideas, and reflections on Hindu civilizational failings Date/Venue:     January 26, 2020 at Cerritos Library  1:30 PM - 3 PM @ Skyline Room, Cerritos Public Library, 18025 Bloomfield Ave, Cerritos, CA, 90703 Subject: It is well recognized that foundational concepts/ideas are the shapers and movers of the world, human as well as natural. This talk intends to focus on a few foundational ideas related to the medical and physical sciences, representative from the Vedic Dharmic Traditions, in order to compare and contrast with the corresponding contemporary scientific paradigms and observations. However, the talk will not focus on technological developments based on those ideas/paradigms. Some comparative assessment of a few significant limitations of prevailing scientific paradigms will also be...

Topic: Citizenship Amendment ACT (CAA) - Facts Vs Fiction, Panel Discussion with following Panelists: 1. Shri Sanjay Panda, Amb Counsul General of India, San Francisco https://www.cgisf.gov.in/page/amb-profile/ 2. Dr. Amrit Nehru, Dentist and founder of Kashmiri Hindu Foundation. 3. Dr. Jashvant Patel, Pain medicine Physician and community activist.  4.  Shri Sanmay Mukhopadhyay, Community Activist   BVM Moderator: Dr.  Amit Desai Date/Venue:    February  9 , 2020 at Cerritos Library  130 PM - 330 PM @ Skyline Room, Cerritos Public Library, 18025 Bloomfield Ave, Cerritos, CA, 90703 This is a RSVP Only Event, please RSVP at  http://bit.ly/BVM-LA-CAA Subject: Recently, the parliament of India passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill on December 11, 2019.  The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019 amends the Citizenship Act of 1955 so that Indian citizenship can be conferred to the persecuted religious minorities such as Hin...