Overview
- Speaking at the release of the 'Arya Yug' volume in Mumbai on Sunday, the RSS chief said Indians must free their minds from the Macaulay Knowledge System to access their own knowledge tradition.
- He argued that colonial-era schooling left Indians with 'foreign' minds and urged evaluating global advances to keep what is useful and discard what is not.
- Bhagwat presented the Indian Knowledge System as a holistic framework linking truth, ethics and purpose that he said the world now seeks from India.
- He said invaders plundered India's wealth and then its intellect, contending that a colonial mindset persists and asserting that some people are hindering progress.
- Event organisers reported the signing of a knowledge-sharing MoU between Nalanda University and Gitarth Ganga.