Hyderabad:The English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU) hosted a one-day workshop on Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) on Monday with faculty members, researchers and students. This is for the ongoing conversation around pedagogy and research under the NEP 2020 framework. Vice Chancellor Prof. N. Nagaraju, who inaugurated the event, called upon faculty members to engage actively with Indian intellectual traditions. He described the university’s role as being “in the thick of IKS initiatives,” which suggests an academic participation from EFLU in this policy space.The keynote by Prof. Ganti S. Murthy, national coordinator of the Indian Knowledge Systems Division in the ministry of education, called for reconnecting academic inquiry with India’s intellectual roots and noted that these traditions can coexist alongside contemporary scholarship.A series of lectures followed, including sessions by Prof. Veeranarayana N. K. Pandurangi of Karnataka Sanskrit University, Prof. D. Venkat Rao, former faculty of English at EFLU, and Prof. Penna Madhusudan from the Sanskrit Academy in Hyderabad. Each speaker brought a different disciplinary approach to IKS, which prompted a wide-ranging discussion on how such frameworks might be introduced in classrooms and research workspaces.Participants included experienced teachers and early-career scholars, as well as students who contributed to the exchanges. The event was structured less as a ceremonial occasion and more as a space for practical dialogue around pedagogy, policy and the future of research in language and the humanities.
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