B. Mahadevan is a professor of Operations Management at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, where he has been teaching since 1992. Professor Mahadevan has more than 27 years of wide-ranging experience in teaching, research, consulting, and academic administration at IIM Bangalore and other reputed institutions such as IIT Delhi and XLRI, Jamshedpur.
Professor Mahadevan’s research interests include researching the possibility of using ancient Indian wisdom to address contemporary concerns, spirituality in the work place, and management paradigms from Bhagavad Gita.
Professor Mahadevan was the founder Vice-chancellor of Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth, a University for applied Sanskrit and Indian Wisdom during 2016 – 2018.
0:00 Prof. Mahadevan’s latest book
1:17 What is Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS)
4:35 What is ‘Indian’ about IKS
8:20 Will Education be finally Indianised?
10:33 New Education Policy’s role in Indianising education system
13:42 Acknowledge India’s past knowledge as well as achievements of modern systems
17:32 Wootz Steel: The Wonder of India
20:06 How IKS will transform psyche of Indians
23:04 How can the current generation add to the IKS?
25:51 Problem with history teaching in Indian schools
30:50 Oral tradition at the heart of IKS
32:37 What can universities do to bring IKS into active research?
36:53 What Indian Knowledge can teach us about leading a Good Life
40:34 Lessons from Bhagavad Gita on finding joy in work
46:04 Lessons from Bhagavad Gita on management and leadership
50:35 How to meditate properly
54:03 Challenges before Indian Knowledge System
56:20 What teachers can learn from IKS when it comes to pedagogy
