Media Coverage of Acharya Prashant

Oxford, which brought the Ishavasya Upanishad to the West a century and a half ago, is now returning it to its vivid meaning by an Indian philosopher. Acharya Prashant argues that no external policy, from the climate crisis to the nuclear threat — will work as long as the consuming ego remains untested.

Despite 30 COP summits, carbon emissions continue to rise—Acharya Prashant is raising these uncomfortable questions at Britain's highest echelons. From Cambridge to the House of Lords and beyond to Oxford, he argues that the root of the climate crisis lies not in technology, but in human desire.

In a tour that has placed an Indian philosopher on the stage of some of Britain’s most prestigious intellectual and policy stages, Acharya Prashant has spent the past week carrying a climate message to capacity audiences at the Cambridge Union, in a one-on-one dialogue with a British peer of the realm, in public sessions that have drawn British audiences well beyond the Indian community, and across a sequence of upcoming engagements at Oxford, the London School of Economics, King’s College London, and London Climate Action Week.

In the article published in Punjab Kesari, Acharya Prashant highlights the deep and ancient tradition of Raksha Bandhan. They point out that this festival is not limited to the sibling relationship only, but it is described in the Puranas as a thread that symbolises protection and respect. This tradition is also associated with the principles of the Guru-Shishya relationship in the Gurukuls and the peace recitation of the Upanishads.