‘Political Power Requires Narrative Power’: JNU VC at Indian Knowledge Systems Conference
11 July 2025 | The Indian Express
Jawaharlal Nehru University’s Vice-Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit Thursday said that universities play a vital role in shaping national narratives. “Political power requires narrative power. So, intellectuals are very important, and it is the duty of higher education institutions to do it,” she said in her welcome address at JNU’s first annual academic conference on Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS).
Inaugurating the conference, Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar said “the power that is in Indian Knowledge Systems is no less than a nuclear one”. The three-day conference, from July 10 to 12, seeks to explore India’s traditional systems of philosophy, science, and art, and how they can be integrated into contemporary education and policy frameworks…