Industrialist Gautam Adani has announced a Rs 100-crore plan to improve India’s education system and preserve its cultural history. He made this announcement at the first Adani Global Indology Conclave, which took place at Adani Corporate House in Ahmedabad.
Adani Highlights Cultural Confidence as the Foundation of India’s Growth
The conclave gathered experts in Indology, technology, and culture from both India and abroad. In his speech to the audience, which included Jagadguru Shankaracharya Shri Avimukteshwarananda Saraswati ji, Gautam Adani emphasized that studying India’s knowledge traditions is a national priority.
He pointed out that India’s strength throughout the years came from its cultural confidence. “When a civilization knows who it is, its economy knows where it must go,” he noted.
Gautam Adani shared memories from his childhood in Banaskantha, north Gujarat, where his mother told him stories from the Ramayana and Mahabharata. He viewed these tales as more than just stories. “These narratives were formative lessons, introducing me to devotion, duty, and the essence of dharma,” he explained.
Five-Point Strategy
He identified three main risks posed by AI to India’s cultural heritage: the invisibility of manuscripts, cultural compression, and misinterpretation of Indian traditions.
To tackle these challenges, Adani suggested a five-point strategy: creating a Bharat Knowledge Graph, a digital repository linking texts, thinkers, and ideas to help AI learn accurately from Indian sources; developing an India-centric Indology corpus to test AI’s understanding of Indian philosophies and enhances the human loop by involving scholars to provide context.