Mahabharata Utsav
 
13-21 November 2005, The National College Grounds, Basavanagudi, Bangalore
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Chairman
Justice M.N. Venkatachalaih
Former Chief Justice of India
Dr. K. Kasturirangan
M.P. (Rajya Sabha), Former Chairman-ISRO
Dr. V.R. Panchamukhi
Chancellor, Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha
Prof. Roddam Narasimha
FRS, Former Director, National Aerospace Laboratories
Dr. Prahlada
Director, DRDL-Indian Missile Programme
Sri Swami Satchidananda
Former M.P. (Rajya Sabha)
Sri D.R. Karthikeyan
Former Chief, CBI
Dr. Deviprasad Shetty
Director, Narayana Hrudayalaya
Sri Srinath Batni
Director, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Sri Dileep Ranjekar
CEO, Azim Premji Foundation
Sri B.V. Jagadeesh
President & CEO, Netscaler Inc., U.S.A.
Sri Ranjan Acharya
Vice-President, HRD, Wipro Corporation
  The Mahabharata Utsav is being organized by the Mahabharata Samshodhana Pratisthanam, (Mahabharata Research Foundation) a non profit Indic Research organization based in Bangalore and recognized by Govt. of India

Started in 1997, by a group of young techies working in diverse IT firms like IBM, Wipro and Intel, it has been established to mainly contextualize India's ancient wisdom and knowledge and use it to improve the quality of life of people across the world. It is also involved in the research and development of new tools and technologies and distribute them as freeware as needed by scholars of Indic Systems.

New initiatives and projects include:
  • A Digital Mobile Lab for Manuscripts and Heritage

  • Encyclopedia of Mahabharata.
  • Management Team
    Chairman

    Prof. Prahladachar Former Vice Chancellor, RSVP

    Ramachandra Budihal
    Samira Rao
    Suyameendra
    Sandeep HS
    Krishna Mokashi
    Organizing team
     
    Neela KP
    Nivedita Honnatti
    Geeta Bhat
    Haripriya
    Nandini
    Prof. Akilesh
    Akilesh Babu
    Maanandi Sathish
    Krishna Reddy
    Kiran kumar